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...neither doing dance in its true virtuosic sense, nor are we doing music in its true virtuosic sense, but a hybrid in its true virtuosity,” Bloom explains. “We practice the discipline of being spontaneous...
...representation of this embrace of the spontaneous, Bloom described how only five minutes before the demonstration was scheduled to begin, she discovered that if a sand bag was placed on the push pedals of an open piano, loud notes would reverberate throughout the room. Without hesitation, she incorporated this discovery into her presentation...
During their second short performance, Bloom played her saxophone into the open piano, intensifying the echoes, as Dubble performed next to her. Punctuated scattato notes were reflected by Dubble’s arms whirling in a windmill-like fashion. The organic feel of their collaboration was apparent at the end of this piece, when Dubble found that the music brought her to the ground in a fetal position...
...performance then opened to audience questions, the answers to which were given through motion and music as much as word. Bloom and Dubble emphasized that they had developed a private personal vocabulary that did not have to be articulated or premeditated. Dubble described it as “trying to listen with all of my cells, even with my skin...
However, their musical and physical improvisation was not completely random. As an improvisational dancer, Dubble explained that there are conventions, like moving in unison or canon, that can unite spontaneous choreography. Bloom and Dubble set about parameters, like agreeing to explore the floor space and having the dancer follow the music...