Vocabulary
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Throughout the years, a specific vocabulary for teaching and describing CI has developped. At the Isreali Improvisation Dance Festival, Dieter Heitkamp, together with participants of his workshop, started working on the dictionary of delight. They gathered terms used in CI, a list of which can be found under dictionary of delight.
Due to the nature of CI, a constantly developing dance form without centralized organization, there is no one way of naming exercises, no one way of teaching them. Lineage of exercises has seldom been notated.
This site provides the possibility of starting an archive of existing exercises, of ways of teaching them, allowing different views on one subject. Dancers who created exercises and scores, defined terms, could be credited for their work by publishing their work under their name, accrediting others by tracing the lineage of the work they are building upon.
Potentially, a central list of terms with definitions could be created, but also a list of differences within one term: an exercise which first emerged in the USA in the 70s might be tought differently today in Japan. Keeping track of those differences will give precious insights into cultural differences and social changes.
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