Our Approach to Movement Generation and Upcoming Videos

We're about to share videos from recent rehearsals and I wanted to set some context for this whole gallery of clips we'll be posting to our blog. What you are about to see are the beginnings of our exploration, the generative period, in creating enough movement material, thought material and text material to find out what the language is of this piece - the movement vocabulary.

You can listen to following audio podcast to learn more about this generative process and also continue reading below:

Click this link to listen to audio podcast (MP3 format)

So none of the upcoming clips have been crafted more than through improvisations. And some of clips are total experiments to find ways to the next level and are not intended for performance.

Having said that, I love the rare surprise that comes through when you start improvising and you try to capture that again for performance because it is spot on.

To learn more about this process, you can visit the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Toolbox, which is based on our exploration, over 30 year period, of how to generate movement.

As we continue to develop Funny Uncles, we'll start to craft these disparate experiments into a full work. But for now, you're about to see some of these experimentations which I find very interesting and fascinating, which I hope you do too.