Basic Assumptions 

(to be explored - always further - & possibly reformulated!).

About choreographing

•  Choreography is the physical inscription of movements on places (choreo-: Greek for place for dances & -graphy: Greek for writing).

• Choreography is a embodied-perceptual action in which body (-movements), place, time, other bodies (-movements) and maybe things are brought into a relationships which vary from everyday experience. 

• Sometimes this action is mainly or exclusively at the level of sensory experience and perception, i.e. it may be in the way the viewer looks at something. 

• Choreography can happen by chance or can be deliberately induced.

• It can be repeatable or unique in the moment. 

• Anyone can choreograph.

• Choreography can take place in any environment. 

• Every movement can be part of a choreography.

• Choreographing is a (playful, embodied) way to appropriate the world / of being in the world.

About walking 

• Walking connects, it also separates.

• Walking is always physical and perceptible.

• By walking we creates relationships.

• In walking we orientate ourselves and with walking we find more orientation.

• Sometimes we get lost in walking.

• Walking is individual and it is collective.

• Walking is a bridge to standing, jumping, running, climbing, turning, falling, and dancing.

About perception

• Perception is informed by the senses (through hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, balance & sense of movement).

• Perception is created through comparing and by putting one thing in relation to another.

• Perception is an active process based on movement of the body and by movement of attention and by putting ourselves in relation to something.

• Thus, perception is based on a networking-process of the nervous system, in which all incoming sensory information are filtered and ordered in relation to individual previous experiences, emotional & mental classifications & intentions.

• We form habits of perception.

• Perception can change (and habits change).

About the city

• In the city, the built and the grown meet and intermingle. 

• Grown things are alive, they are life.

• There is always life in the built city.

• Life is movement and can therefore be part of choreographies.

• Life is experienced, and since there is life in the city, the city is experienced.

• The experience of the city changes with the way we walk and perceive it.

About playing

• Spil: Old High German for dance movement

• Playing is for fun.

• Playing invents rules and breaks them again.

• In play one does not stay, one moves on (or is thrown back again).

• Play raises problems.

• Play is trying things out.

• Play promotes solutions

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