Students this week concentrated on different kinds of improvisation \u2013 which involves listening, watching, quick creating and lots of fun. Students from grade 2 and up had a go at Futzing. <\/p>\n
Futzing was invented by a world renowned dancer\/choreographer called Twyla Tharp. Here she explains what it is like:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I’m in the studio, when I’m warm, when I’m what people call improvising, but what I call futzing, [but] improvisation seems like such a somehow institutionalized word. What I do is completely the opposite of institutionalized; it’s the messiest thing you can imagine!\u201d \u2013 Twyla Tharp<\/p>\n
Students were given, according to their age and stage of development, instructions to create a short phrase which they then performed lying on their backs. Hilarity ensued \u2013 as well as exclamations of \u201cHow are we going to do THAT move?\u201d
\nIt was seriously fun \u2013 and at times very creative. The enclosed clips give a little taste of this activity. <\/p>\n