Reconstitution of the Dance Generating Process in Experimental Dance-Making

自世纪中期以来，编舞家们发展了新的实验方法来“制造动作”：随机操作、不确定性、游戏结构和各种其他形式的结构化即兴创作。我详细研究了这些方法，特别是发现了威廉·福赛斯（William Forsythe）和他的舞者使用的系统的足够信息，以重建他们实际的动作生成过程。在这个系统中，舞者在特定的规则框架内即兴表演。我开发了一种形式主义的方式来描述福赛斯的系统在表演过程中如何运作以及舞者如何在其中移动。我使用“同时多系列系统”一词来描述福赛斯的方法，并澄清舞者的身体和心灵在表演过程中在系统中的运作。作为制度的逻辑产物，规则框架与舞者身体的互动必然超越制度。

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.