Choreographic Process: June 24

How to Choreograph a Dance? What is a “dance stimulus”?

Choreographer: Abd Al Hadi Abunahleh

  • Location: Studio 8, Amman, Jordan
  • Duration: 140 minutes
  • Starting: 19:40 pm Ending: 22:00 pm

A stimuli could be any thing that inspires you to choreograph and give you a new direction to think in. Its an exciting journey to discover how many ways a simple stimuli can be perceived in and how it can inspire movement.

Choreographer uses stimulus to help dance artists think out-of-the-box when they choreograph fresh pieces together. Lately, we’ve been thinking of introducing scientific and anthropological theories as stimulus in dance creation. “Time out of Time: a special place” is inspired by Liminality, “a threshold”. Humanistic psychologists describe “the ‘out-of-this-world’ quality associated to liminality a sort of trance-like feeling. Analytical psychologists have often seen the individuation process of self-realization as taking place within a liminal space.Choreographer uses stimulus to help dance artists think out-of-the-box when they choreograph fresh pieces together. Lately, we’ve been thinking of introducing scientific and anthropological theories as stimulus in dance creation. “Time out of Time: a special place”

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