Dancing is about figuring out how to best navigate the specific set of conditions a choreography is.
Choreographing, is about how to best develop, adjust and organize those sets of conditions.
If you’re a choreographer, you’re putting in place the conditions for let’s say a desert, or a tropical jungle, the ocean, or Antarctica. If you’re a dancer, you’re working on figuring out how to best survive and thrive in these different environments (sets of conditions).
That’s why as a choreographer, I’m completely passive, I would almost say indifferent, regarding the choreographic outcome. The entire focus of my role as choreographer, besides putting in place and fine tuning the choreographic conditions, is on training the dancers. Expanding their knowledge and understanding of the choreographic thing, so they can navigate and find their own way in the best possible manner within the choreographic environments I’m proposing.
What lies at the base of this approche, is seeing choice as the fundamental human right, and therefore the dancing, as an instrument of pure optionality
