Vitalization of Relationship Dynamics in Improvisation

We are currently facing an important juncture in the history of improvised music whereby it is incumbent upon us to revitalize improvisational performance practices which, by their very nature, were imbued with change and dynamism. I read as a young man the highly influential early modern dancer Mary Wigman, and was made aware of a dynamic which became a personal fundamental. She said: "The Modern Dance is a transition from the theatrical behavior of the 19th century, to something else". The message is clear; that performance forms such as dance, improvisational music, theatre, or film are, and should always be, in transition. This unsettled or 'tentative' dynamism enables opportunities for invention cycles driven by intuitive and technical advances. In accordance with these natural tendencies within dynamic performing art forms, new sets of questions should continually arise, new perspectives embraced and studied, and challenging disciplines practiced.