BodyScores

A score-making and performance workshop for non-musicians created by Yun Lee, Natalie Fyfe, and Karina Dukalska. Past approaches include text and graphic scores for movement, objects, paper, stones.

Scores, in the broadest sense, are a form of organizing ideas, of communicating instructions, of archiving processes. This workshop will look at how to read and make different kinds of scores (notational, graphic, text, audio, video) which can then be used to create installations, compositions, and performances.

Instead of musical instruments, we will focus on using small gestures, isolated parts of the body, and the voice. By isolating one aspect of a body part, participants will explore physical boundaries and learn how to compose with minimal elements.

Participants will experiment with writing for themselves and for each other. We will start off with movement and writing warm ups and exercises, gradually working up to creating longer pieces. The workshop will end in a presentation of scores and resulting performances.

We’ll be diving into topics such as: how can you develop a notation system that both captures what you want to communicate and can easily be interpreted by performers? What elements of a performance do we choose to include and leave out in a score?

No previous experience in performance, composition/choreography or any form of score-making is required. Participants must be willing to perform in some way.

Past guests: Jochem van Tol, Fazle Shairmahomed, Christian Smith & Matt Rawlins, Marit Mihklepp

Past workshops
2021, The Body as a Score, Marres, Maastricht NL
2019-ongoing, Art department, International School of The Hague, NL
2019, Pirate Bay, WORM Rotterdam NL
2018, iii, The Hague NL