Summary Of Wendell Beavers Re-Locating Technique

Wendell Beavers received his Bachelor of Art where he specializes in somatic based movement, experimental in dance/choreography, and a creator of developmental technique. Beavers joined the faculty of Naropa University in 2003 as the founding Cahir of the MFA Theater, Contemporary Performance Program. “Re-locating Technique”, was an article that we wrote about how choreography from the past to present has changed. Meaning in the past, choreography was more based from certain modern techniques and structured, whereas in the present choreography has been combined with improvisation to make it your own take and how one feels. Quoted by Beavers on page 127, “Dance is an ephemeral or nonmaterial art, it is said, because movement exists by definition
He states that, “Improvisation should be placed at the core of choreography”. In the past, post-modern generation bestowed a complex set of forms and tools to disassemble both the dancer and the dance. Post-modern was strictly just techniques such as Cunningham, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Limon, etc. Beaver states that improvisation would be virtuous to use not only as a viable performance form, but also as a technique. In the past, I was not comfortable with how I looked as an improviser because this was a technique that I was not accustomed to. Becoming more familiar with the idea of improvising in classes has helped me as a choreographer and being able to know who I am as a dancer. However, I believe that Cunningham brought improvisation into his work when using chance dancing. His movement was so direct, but the music and counts were always changing, giving his dancers leeway to accomplish what they thought. Cunningham also believed in using the space. He allowed the dancers to dance where they wanted, but not always be in the light. Dance training lags well behind the educations of music and visual arts in its inclination to fundamentally explore and reinvent because our own postmodern tradition has been somewhat