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Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
Conference Schedule 2019
Friday, February 22, 2019, 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Compositional Improvisation with TC Tolbert
Date(s): Friday, February 22, 2019, 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Location: Thoren, University Club (view map)
Type(s): Generative Workshop, Performance
Genre and Form(s): Experimental, Hybrid, Interdisciplinary, LGBTQIA, Mixed Genre, Poetry
Tags: Dance, Movement, Improvisation, Queerness
About the Session
In this fully embodied, experiential session, we will study, inhabit, and practice the art of Compositional Improvisation – composing (individually and collaboratively) (with movement, text, sound, and space) in the moment to create dynamic, rigorous, complex, and fully realized “pieces” without rehearsal or planning. This session will allow writers a chance to work from and with their bodies and unique subject positions while demanding acute attention to choice-making and the elements of composition on and off the page. I think of Compositional Improvisation as queering the process all the way through.
