1.2 - Immersion in the context of improvisation
"...immersion is a condition of acceptance; it is an acceptance to surrender your senses to the environment that wishes to speak to you...to immerse oneself is to listen unconditionally."
- Immersion as an attribution to attention:
...to the narrative of the improvisation
...to reacting in the present moment of the performance
...but also in relation to what was played in the past and what is called for in the developing dramaturgy of the future
"The speed and complexity of my responses may suffer when I enter into analysis or judgement...When I am finished with the improvisation, I enter into analysis...when the analysis comes after the improvisation, I benefit, but not during the improvisation."
- Shinichi Iova-Koga (Choreographer/teacher of Action Theatre, Artistic Director of inkBoat)
"...normally an expert does not deliberate. He does not reason."
- Dreyfus and Dreyfus (1986)
