DOUG & SARAH'S CHAIN OF DOUBLES IN PARALLEL LIVES
The idea of engaging with the imagination of being doubles of each other in parallel universes was suggested to me by Raimundas Malasauskas in Vienna during the Teachback project hosted by Jennifer Lacey and myself, in July 2013.
I planted it as a subscore during the workshop I taught the week after ("now please realise that someone else in this room is in fact your double in a parallel universe... how's your double doing?... keep track of your double as you work and go through class, maybe through your day..."). On the last day I asked the participants to pair up and either reformulate a score I had shared during the week, or make up a new one responding to those. Doug LeCours and Sarah Gibbron came up with this one.
As one person dances a dance for about a minute, their partner watches the double of their dance in a parallel life.
Then the one who just watched goes and dances the double dance they just saw (: they do not improvise), while the other forgets what they just did and watch the double of the dance that is now being danced, in a parallel live.
Keep switching.
note: the technical details of how to see the double of a present dance are not established. some people like to watch through the body of their dancing partner, others squint, others directly watch the double dance while keeping the present one in the corner of their eye.
DOUG & SARAH'S CHAIN OF DOUBLES IN PARALLEL LIVES
The idea of engaging with the imagination of being doubles of each other in parallel universes was suggested to me by Raimundas Malasauskas in Vienna during the Teachback project hosted by Jennifer Lacey and myself, in July 2013.
I planted it as a subscore during the workshop I taught the week after ("now please realise that someone else in this room is in fact your double in a parallel universe... how's your double doing?... keep track of your double as you work and go through class, maybe through your day..."). On the last day I asked the participants to pair up and either reformulate a score I had shared during the week, or make up a new one responding to those. Doug LeCours and Sarah Gibbron came up with this one.
As one person dances a dance for about a minute, their partner watches the double of their dance in a parallel life.
Then the one who just watched goes and dances the double dance they just saw (: they do not improvise), while the other forgets what they just did and watch the double of the dance that is now being danced, in a parallel live.
Keep switching.
note: the technical details of how to see the double of a present dance are not established. some people like to watch through the body of their dancing partner, others squint, others directly watch the double dance while keeping the present one in the corner of their eye.