What is improvisation?

It implies a research; bodies exploring what they can do, bodies investigating the limits of their capacity to express. It implies a courage; the vulnerability of the dancer who performs un-choreographed is that which makes the performance, the unrehearsed rawness and corollary risk heighten the spectacle. When bodies come together in improvisation the risk increases exponentially with each body added; two bodies is much more than a doubling of complexity and three bodies more than a tripling. These bodies are investigating the precise details of what they can do together in the space called now, here at this time. The details are their dance, it is the net sum of the dance of the individuals involved acting on each other’s dance to create a greater whole dance.