This is a modality meant to upgrade the quality of your own movement possibilities and personal expression.

Participants are asked to begin movements and to dance from their own needs and from the feelings they have at this moment. When they start to create a dynamic and quality in their own movement, emotions, and dance, they can then look around to other people and search with curiosity for new inspiration in the form of other people’s movements, emotions or thoughts, which they can then take and transform for themselves to upgrade their own quality of movement and expression.

This is the natural way of how we learned new things as kids – Monkey See, Monkey Do. This modality could also be called “Stealing”, and we can use it in life as well as in dance when we see something that triggers our curiosity. We simply take the information and we try it out. Then the alchemy process starts: we take what is working for us, and we discard what is not. This is how we build quality of what and how we are doing things.

And in dance, the “stealing” tool is one possible way of how we build the quality of movements and expression in dance improvisation. But the trick is to be really balanced. To know when it’s time to steal and when it’s time to be with yourself without allowing outside impulses and information to influence you. It’s good to develop this capacity to choose.