What are some of the tools or techniques you practice to facilitate instantaneous decision making?
In order to support a dancer in their ability to make quick physical decisions I teach technique. I use a technique base, which combines ballet, modern, post modern dance techniques and especially contact dance. I think it is the finest way to condition the body and mind for quick decisions. I use counting for my combinations and complex space designs (no front). I insist that dancers are able to hear the beginning of a musical phrase, so that the logical ending is analysed by the duration of time the movement is placed in, while continually changing space. Technique is how I want a dancer to make decisions. Technique is how a dancer can do it. But dance technique is a specialisation of body. I do not think that any specialisation can define an art form. I think that the art form is defined by its inherit use of time, space, communication and the elements. In the case of this art form (dance-choreography) body is the element. I am a strong believer in a combination of traditional techn
