Improvisation in Dance

Developing Presence through Movement

Nicole Martensen
People Play Dance
Published in
2 min readJan 18

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Photo by Ahmad Odeh on Unsplash

Improvisation in dance is usually referring to spontaneous or semi-structured movements. Rather than learning choreography as a specific sequence of known steps to match key points in the music, the moves are completely random or prompted by a simple word or phrase. In theory, improvisation is simple. Make up the movement as you go along. In practice, however…

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Nicole Martensen
People Play Dance

Performing artist and anthropologist-writing about culture, technology, and performing arts.