This was the first method I used to develop choreography. It was inspired by Remy Charlip and Eadweard Muybridge.

 

I was particularly interested in the still image at the beginning. I had wanted to create a framework that would allow me to make choreography by stitching together "movement stills" as I called them in rehearsal. 

 

To create phrases that moved through these stills, El, Audrey, and I each took turns improvising while the other two watched. The two who were not dancing "tuned" the improvisation, asking the dancer to stop at a particularly striking moment in the dance. While the dancer paused, we took a photo of the moment. We did this several times for each dancer.

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We then used the movement stills in these photos to create scores. We moved from image to image, alternating stills from each dancer, and connected each shape with transitional movement. 

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