Deanne Butterworth Practice Sharing

"The knowing is that you don’t know what will happen. You have to set the intention of having no idea. The dance is there in the 'ether', you just need to connect into."

Image:Deanne Butterworth in 'Double Double' by Peter Rosetzky

An impartial improvisation. Slipping in to a trust that you know it will happen you just need to...do. There are thousands of influences in space and time. When we slip into the present we allow these 'other bodies', whether they be physical or idealogical, to transmit into a frequency together.

Deanne used a beautiful analogy of walking. Walking is the present becoming the past with every millisecond of the step. By going forwards you are going towards a known-ness, whilst also moving away from a known-ness. However we straddle with uncertainty as we move into this future, we still move knowing that something will happen.

When improvising in a group setting without any boundaries, the human brain will always try to analyse a pattern in what is taking place. It downloads corresponding moments and attaches meaning to them. Perhaps though, everything in an improvisation is a corresponding moment? Maybe you come in with an idea of what you want to explore but as it goes on you develop it and move with it. Putting energy into the space, the space also gives off a strong energy, and other bodies in that space too give off and re-digest this energy. Creative synthesis. When the brain falls in sync with each other, and I dare to say also the space.

Your subconsciously saying yes and no to things in the space and finding a collective energy. What happens to come out of your body at the time is ... neither predictable nor chance.

We are taught in Western cultures that gaining knowledge and understanding something through academia is truth. However, Deanne spoke to the unbecoming which becomes the learning. We all have generational knowledge within our bodies, as well as what we have lived through up until this very moment.

Trust and fall into the space. It will happen.