Mocean's annual choreographic lab CLEaR Forum, Photo by Kevin MacCormack

Sunday 15 May 2016

CLEaR Forum: Generative Dialogue Circle


How do you feel connected to your peers, greater community, Canadian dance ecology and the role of dance in general?

How do you make room for yourself in the community?

Who (or what) inspires you the most and why? When you enjoy dancing the most?

What makes a great dance?, What is Dance?

If you had the luxury of unlimited time what would you choose to cultivate in yourself or art practice?   (Blue sky thinking)

What are people’s desires in preserving or breaking formal theatre format?

Do you have image of place (theatre, site-specific, etc.) in mind before you go into creation or does it come after?

When does the role of audience become part of the work?

When/how do you consider the audience?

How do we allow work to be seen more when there are fewer presenting forums and smaller audiences?

What is, in your opinion, an old way of working or approaching dance that might need to evolve?

What is the role of tradition in contemporary dance? 

If you could design a training program, what would it be?

What influences does (specific) training have on a dancers ability to adapt to change?  Do you think the training model (in the professional realm) is lacking something? 

How do you start?

What is the value in the intellectualisation of the creative process?

How do you make structure and content align?

What is the main obstacle you face when creating?

What (if any) are your tools to overcome obstacles or what are such tools you admire in others that you can identify?

What structures/organization does dancers need to make their work or to be more efficient in making of dance?

How do you approach working collaboratively?

How much information of your creation you like to share with your collaborators, at what point, and why/why not?

How do you negotiate the truth in the room vs. original choreographic concepts?

How do you know or recognize ego influencing the work and how do you reflect and redirect this?

How do you dive deeply into a choreographer’s world and still keep elements of yourself?  / Should you?

What is the value of having a “movement signature” as a dancer and when does it hinder the process?

How do you feel in rubbing or uncomfortable situations? Stay or Go?

How do you take your place and leave room at the same time during a process?

How to remain autonomous?

How to not let the work you dance in and see subconsciously become your vocabulary? 



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