History
Choreobot —-> questions about creativity in aesthetics, pedagogy, and technique.
Somatics —-> Alexander Technique, Release Technique, and Improvisation yielded much deeper connectedness in the body than any other movement class
Awareness —-> among communities that being graded by comparison rather than by work interfered with the depth of connectedness and expression.
There is a rule for me: translation. interpretation is subjective, and by accepting that, we get out of the limits.
Predecessors
80’s nights, Super Mario Brothers.
What follows is an academic positioning of The VICKi Project.
– Hanya Holm
– Merce Cunningham
– Alwin Nikolais
– Gladys Bailin
(basically, my BFA profs from Ohio University School Of Dance)
Holm trained through improvisation. In Bailin’s comp class, the Holm legacy manifested through use of improvisation to devise material for choreography and work on performance clarity. I studied dance composition under Michelle Geller, a Cunningham dancer. In Geller’s comp class we used chance procedures to devise material for choreographing and to make choreographic decisions. VICKi focuses improvisation-composition based technique through chance-esque procedures.
Julie Cruse