An infrequent and enthusiasticly dorky contact dancer at best, I Iean more toward other expressions -
music for example..
I've been working as a solo musician with two Contact Improv dancers (who've danced together a lot),
our aim being to possibly gel some sort of structure, or dance piece form, to improvise off of.
Maybe a performance eventually,
maybe just for the joy in it.
We've done a few sessions using electric guitar, ambient moody sounds and such - went good.
This afternoon I switched to electric violin, run thru a sort of wah tubular fx filter (with some subtle reverb).
Very fine results!
All the airy, textured sounds of a fiddle (bowed or plucked) worked splendidly with Kyla and Quint's dancing
and we all got lost in the shifting interplay of sound and bodies.
The violin played the dancers and the dancers played violin, don't'cha know.
Also I'd asked about hands.. using hands in dance, like those lovely asian traditions of stylized gestures..
so the dancers at times emphasized this aspect, and I used their hands as a focus to build musical moods from..
We worked just one hour without stopping - but it felt sublime.
Wanted to share this..