CROSSINGS - an investigation of movement styles

“CROSSINGS” is an examination on combination between personal movement styles of a dancer and a choreographer’s signature to create a work of choreography. It results from an observation and examination of how individual style gives a significant contribution into a contemporary dance and gives way to make a characteristic work of choreographer.

Performed in TUK, Jakarta on the 7 & 8 Sept and Alicante Music Festival, 20 Sept 2007.

Study of 'Personal Movement Style' - an independent choreography research project

The term of ‘style’ for this research is an individual expression characterized by a dancer personality and quality inside the technical trained dancing body.

My research is based on an investigation of the proposition that each dancer has their own movement quality which can be seen even within a particular dancing style. Arguably quality is personal and specific to each person even when they perform learned movement. I consider style to be something that can be learnt and embodied through practice, especially when it is focused on one specific dance or movement style. Dance styles require certain movement qualities; but there are some qualities that appear to me to be personal and I am going to investigate the idea of how ‘new personal movement style’ produced in this research.

London, 25 May 2007