Rasmus Ölme
Questioning Choreography

Questioning Choreography creating set material with your body as you move through it The idea here is to challenge set material against improvisation. Mostly they are presented as eachothers opposite and as if it would have to be the one or the other. There is of course a full span in between. Now I am not really thinking about different scores of improvisation which would be a sort of set material. What I am interested in is the mental and physical approach to the material that a performer would have depending on the label of the work on that scale between improvisation and choreography. In that sense this is not an improvisation workshop. I would rather describe it as moving through improvisation, challenge it with set material to then be able to return towards set material with a new approach. Technically this also means looking into the initiation of movement, creating set material with your body as you move through it. It also wanders around choreography asking what it is: the created movement, the performed movement or the idea behind the movement? Or a whole set of other questions.