About

LIVE WORKS

is a practice of creating site specific performance, developed by Pien Vrijhof (Netherlands 1954). The name LIVE WORKS refers to the tradition in fine art to call a painting, sculpture, installation a work. LIVE refers to improvising and composing with space, light, the other, in the moment, live.

A LIVE WORKS process knows three phases:

1. Improvisation sessions

A LIVE WORKS session always starts with a warm up to open up to all our senses, to expand the three-dimensionality of movement and spatial orientation.

2. Editing sessions

In improvisation sessions movement themes always come back like accords in music. When we work towards a sharing with an audience, we edit these accords into a sequence. A sequence that has to feel to the performers like a stream, not as a set choreography, but still open to improvisation.

3. Sharing with audience

On the day of sharing, movers step into the space and weave this sequence of accords into the moment, atmosphere and light of the day, together with the audience.