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Why You Might Want to Stay Away From Contact Improvisation

By Brenton On January 3, 2014 · 1 Comment · In Contact Improvisation
Not everyone should do Contact Improvisation. Not everyone is ready for it. Think about it. Think about what’s at stake. You have to give up your ego. Your sense of control. Your attachment to outcomes. Your social status. Your pride. Your adherence to verticality. Your seclusion. And there’s no guarantee about what any of these [...]
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Motif Notation & Movement Literacy

By Brenton On August 9, 2013 · 5 Comments · In Laban
(Text of my full Lightning Talk at Distill 2013, i.e. if it hadn’t been slightly compressed due to imminently reaching my 5 minute limit) I want to show you a different kind of technology. [Little improv solo] Got it? All right, so how many of you speak a foreign language, meaning a different language from [...]
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One Year Later (and Four To Go Til 2017)

By Brenton On June 9, 2013 · 8 Comments · In Laban
Exactly one year has passed since my fanciful time travel presentation at Motus Humanus. One year to let thoughts that were emboldened by not being obliged to result in anything but momentary entertainment actually take root and start seeking the light. I just re-read the transcript of that talk and still stand by what I [...]
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Examples of Indirect Space Effort

By Brenton On June 8, 2013 · Add Comment · In Laban
In my presentation at Motus Humanus last June, I asked the audience to text in examples of Indirect Space Effort. Here’s what they wrote: Preparing to exit an awkward interaction deciding which wine to order feeling the totality of the situation relaxing in hot tub Daydreaming casual wave watching all the clouds in the sky SHOPPING [...]
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Retrospective from 2017: Technology & the Socialization of LMA

By Brenton On June 17, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Laban
I recently had the honor of presenting at the 2012 Motus Humanus Roundtable. My piece was a fanciful imagining of the state of Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) in the world in 2017, presented as a retrospective of the previous 5 years, and tackling the question of what obstacles had prevented LMA from reaching a larger audience [...]
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Who Cares If a Performance Is Improvised?

By Brenton On May 23, 2012 · Add Comment · In Performance
(Inspired by a conversation with Joerg Hassman over breakfast during the 2012 Kiev Festival of Contact Improvisation) In “Impro for Storytellers”, Keith Johnstone says, “The truth is that people come for a good time and nobody cares how the scenes are created except other improvisers… Why should an audience be expected to lower its standards [...]
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Five Seeds for Delicious Contact

By Brenton On May 10, 2012 · Add Comment · In Contact Improvisation
I just taught an intensive called “Breaking Eggs” at the 2012 Kiev Festival of Contact Improvisation. Along with providing a framework for claiming and then expanding one’s movement patterns, I included a somatic track, consisting of 5 advanced principles that I feel are crucial for articulate, connected dancing. Each one really deserves its own thorough [...]
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Berkeley Cafe Colloq: April 19, 2012

By Brenton On April 19, 2012 · Add Comment · In Laban
(An informal monthly-ish gathering focused on Laban Movement Analysis. Attending: Peggy Hackney, Brenton Cheng.) Highlights: Development of standard digital representations of Motif Writing and of Structured Description would pave the way for software designers to create tools that could intercommunicate, even across operating systems. Both tool users and tool developers would benefit. Users would not [...]
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How to Subscribe to the Laban Mailing Lists

By Brenton On February 27, 2012 · Add Comment · In Laban
This information is not as easy to find as it should be. LabanTalk mailing list To subscribe: Send an email to “listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu” with any subject line, and in the body of the email include the line “subscribe Labantalk  firstname lastname”, where “firstname” and “lastname” should be replaced with your first and last names. UPDATE: Just [...]
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Berkeley Cafe Colloq: February 23, 2012

By Brenton On February 23, 2012 · Add Comment · In Laban
(An informal monthly-ish gathering focused on Laban Movement Analysis. Attending: Peggy Hackney, Lisa Wymore, Brenton Cheng.) Highlights: When teaching LMA, there are natural affinities between aspects of the system, such that teaching one of those aspects provides the doorway to the other aspect. For example, the Patterns of Total Body Connectivity (whole body movement patterns) [...]
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