Improv Lab @ Findars:003 2 July 2009 4/5

Improv Lab @ Findars:003

Players Of The Month:
David Lim & Low Shee Hoe (contact improv duo) with Melvin Ho (musician)

SiCKL presents Improv Lab @ FINDARS as a monthly art laboratory for artists, musicians and performers who are interestedwho want to experiment with improvisation. In every lab, 4 artists will be featured to perform a short set each (15 mins). The lab will then end with a final jamming session by all artists. We encourage artists from different disciplines working together. Artists from all disciplines are welcome, as long as you can work out a way for yourself to improvise with your art medium.

Improvisation is indeed the first stage of any creation, and then composition comes in when we arrange our ideas, elaborate some and abandon the others. There is immense energy and creativity in the improvisation stage where rules are constantly being created, worked on and abandoned. In improvised art and music, this process goes on and on, moving into the unknown, of unexpected possibilities. Improvisation requires a great deal of concentration, communication, interaction and awareness among the performers because there will be no 2nd take. There is a certain urgency in improvisation as the final performance/art product itself because you create as you think, simultaneously, and the process IS the final product itself. As improvisers, we have to be alert, ready and respond quickly when we create this NOW together. Many contemporary artists, dancers and musicians have explored improvisation in great depth. Free jazz musicians such as
Peter Broztmann, Hank Bennik and Derek Bailey; dancers such as Merce Cunningham, have all worked extensively with improvisation.

We create NOW, and NOW we CREATE!

For more information, contact:
Siew Wai: kokbuffalo@yahoo.com
Yandsen: 012-9198031
http://emacm.blogspot.com

2 July 2009
FINDARS SpAcE
Lot 2.01,The Annexe,Central Market,Jalan Hang Kasturi,Kuala Lumpur.
http://findars.blogspot.com/
Video credits:Wong Eng Leong

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