A few words about this blog and the relationship between dance and music
Photo by Dorina Köbele-Milas
To get started, I recommend that you briefly familiarise yourself with my artistic research project Melodance. You can find more information on the ABOUT page.
Why do I want to write this blog?
It is important for me to share something that is "tangible".
Firstly, to create a platform where I can present, document and reflect on the process. In addition, I will post announcements and invitations to events around Melodance here.
Then I thought about what my potential readers might be interested in? Which aspects and contents of my research are worth sharing, can be inspiring and helpful for others in their own creative work? It is important for me to share something that is "tangible". So it seemed only plausible and logical to highlight some concrete research and improvisation tasks I work with here.
Preliminary research
To lay all the cards on the table, I want to be completely honest. My research process is not starting from scratch with this blog, as I have allowed myself time for preliminary research. Four weeks have passed since the first day of my scholarship and now I have started revisiting certain "topic blocks" and tasks to delve deeper and immerse myself in them completely.
On the relationship between dance and music
"... a new shape can be created through their juxtaposition."
Ahead of this, I came across the following in a text by Stephanie Jordan ("Machine Metaphors in Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring: A Choreomusical Approach"):
"Music, sometimes operating quietly and sometimes subversively, adds to our understanding of the meaning of a dance work, even if in the form of just one more strand or discourse. But music and dance are also interactive, interdependent components or voices, each working upon each other, occasionally mutually highlighting each other, so that the whole experience becomes more than the sum of its parts, and indeed a new shape can be created through their juxtaposition."
Although Stephanie Jordan refers to Pina Bausch's choreography "Le Sacre du Printemps", for me her words are almost universally applicable to the relationship between dance and music. They had a strong effect on me, accompanied me in the first weeks and are a motivation to do what I do.
Find out more in my next blog post.
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