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FutzingStudents 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<\/p>\n

It was seriously fun \u2013 and at times very creative. The enclosed clips give a little taste of this activity. <\/p>\n