December 16, 2007

Agreement(s)

When dancers improvise together there is usually the tacit agreement to make something happen, to meet, to dance together in some fashion.

In most improvised dances the participants are able bodied, adult human beings, courageous enough to entertain the notion of moving in an improvised fashion with one another and trusting that all participating movers will try and find common ground.

Even in the most unsuccessful improvised dance there is some common ground, if only the fact that the movers are all bipeds.

In our work with horses we have found that the rules of kinetic engagement are different for humans than they are for horses.

Many of those clever, human dancer assumptions do not mean anything to our equine partners.

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