List of parameters︎︎︎
Here is a list of scores from some sources already mentioned, a few new ones and more structural directives used in a variety of improvisations or assignments. These can be points of focus, coupled as parameters to add to any project or to be chosen by the artists.

  • All in/Clear
  • Antagonize
  • Appropriation
  • Attraction/Repulsion
  • Change in relation to audience
  • Change state of time
  • Class phrase
  • Collective elements (a phrase from class)
  • Contradict
  • Contrast (time, space, dynamic)
  • Counterpoint
  • Crystallise
  • Drive
  • Empty/Fill
  • Enter when the room needs you
  • Erase
  • Flow—continuous action/relationships
  • Foreground/Background
  • Forsythe principals—Improvisation Technologies
  • Gesture
  • Golden mean
  • Image
  • Inside/Outside
  • Interrupt
  • Kinesthetic response
  • Melody/Rhythm
  • Moment of magic
  • No arms
  • No content
  • Object—deconstruct and go
  • Obstacle
  • One area of focus
  • One arm
  • One focus
  • One solo in set
  • Painting the space
  • Pause
  • Phonotopes—intermediary spaces between words, sound and image
  • Rebound
  • Reduce
  • Resistance
  • Revelation of space
  • Seen/Not seen
  • Sound drives
  • Spatial relationship
  • Start by flocking
  • Stillness
  • Story
  • Surprising Entrance

︎︎︎from Rob’s collection