Mehdi Farajpour
ART Habens
Improvisation is the territory of Performers( actors, dancers, musicians) and it gives them a freedom to exist in a show( performance). It lets them to be part of the creation process not only a moving object on the stage for the sake of choreographer or director. I like to offer my performers( including myself) the freedom of living in the moment although I have to admit that I believe only in conditional improvisation not a wild improvisation. By saying « conditional improvisation » I mean a « structured sort of improvisation ». To work on this, when I work with a group of dancers, first of all I explain the situation( dramatic moment) to them, then I clarify the type of movement I would need to see. At the end, I explain to them « what I do not want to see ». This very last remark can take a lot of time because here is the moment when I start trimming my dancer’ s movement. After these three steps, the conclusion( basically improvisation), does not look like an improvisation anymore and maybe only me( as the choreographer) and my dancer will know about it. The audience may think that it was not an improvisation.
About Mistakes: I am a choreographer who is not afraid of mistakes. My dancers( performers) know it by heart since I continuously repeat during the rehearsals that: « I love mistakes ». When they hear this, their first reaction is to laugh although they know that I really mean it. Mistakes happen by chance and the only thing that you as an artist need to do is how to use them. Mistake is a miracle itself if perfectly done. The worse is a badly made mistake that means an unfinished or betrayed mistake. A mistake has to be developed perfectly not to be given up by the artist. I only do not like betrayed mistakes.
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