Reconstitution of the Dance Generating Process in Experimental Dance-Making

自20世纪中期以来，编舞家们开发了新的“制作动作”的实验方法：机会操作、不确定性、游戏结构和各种其他形式的结构化即兴创作。我对这些方法进行了详细的研究，特别是发现了William Forsythe和他的舞者用来重建他们实际动作生成过程的系统的足够信息。在这个系统中，舞者在一个特定的规则框架内即兴表演。我发展了一种形式主义的方式来描述福赛斯的系统在表演中是如何工作的，以及舞者是如何在其中移动的。我用“同步多系列系统”来描述Forsythe的方法，并在表演过程中阐明舞者的身心在系统中的运作。作为系统的逻辑结果，规则框架与舞者身体的互动不可避免地超越了系统。

Since the mid-20th century, choreographers have developed new experimental methods for "making movement": chance operations, indeterminacy, game structures, and various other forms of structured improvisation . I researched these methods in detail, discovering in particular enough information on the system used by William Forsythe and his dancers to reconstitute their actual movement-generation process. In the system, dancers improvise within a specified framework of rules. I developed a formalistic way of describing how Forsythe's system works during performance and how the dancers move within it. I use the term "simultaneous multi-series system" to describe Forsythe's approach, and clarify the workings of the dancer's body and mind within the system during performance. As the logical outcome of the system, the interaction between the framework of rules and the dancers' bodies inevitably exceeds the system.