S1 Ep18 Dance Workshop (Copying, Interpretation, and Misunderstanding)

This workshop explores copying as a choreographic practice, focusing on interpretation, accuracy, deviation, and misunderstanding. Rather than treating copying as uncreative or secondary, the episode examines how copying produces difference, imagination, and movement through what is lost, exaggerated, remembered, or transformed.

The session begins by inviting listeners to copy something as accurately as possible, before shifting toward copying badly on purpose by prioritising a single aspect such as timing, effort, or direction. These contrasting approaches open questions around what is valued, ignored, or permitted when we copy movement.

From there, the workshop explores copying from memory, noticing what disappears, what becomes distorted, and what remains as residue. Attention is given to how memory shapes interpretation and how distance in time alters what is reproduced. The session then moves into copying across mediums, translating movement into words, drawing, sound, or other forms, and then back into movement, foregrounding translation as a choreographic tool.

The episode proposes copying as an ongoing chain of reformulations, a practice of moving movement through different bodies, mediums, and interpretations. Through this, the workshop asks where copying ends and interpretation begins, whether accuracy ever truly matters, and how misunderstanding might be a productive and creative force within dancing and choreography.

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A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.

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