To put it in the simplest manner, what I do as choreographer, is present a series of problems to the dancers, and then coach and train them in problem solving. Everything that has to do with analyzing situations, understanding potentials, decision making, cause and effect, responsibility and accountability etc.
There’s a primordial creative aspect residing in which problems I choose to present to them and how it’s done, but in general, the choreography is the result of a group of people engaged in problem solving, within a decentralized system. I don’t have a say regarding which solutions they chose, I just make sure they go deep enough into the problem and come up with effective solutions.
The notion that as choreographer, I’m supposed to dictate to dancers what to do and how to do it, is an anomaly. The fact that this is the prevailing manner of most choreographic practices, is a mirror to the perverted and inhuman social, political and economical systems of current societies.
