Abstract

This paper presents a video of a performance at 'Concurrent♯2' in Edinburgh, 2017. it is followed by artist statements made in response to watching the piece. The authors' set in context the work and its development.

Highlights

  • This video is from Concurrent♯2, January 2017 and forms part of an on-going artistic data collection

  • The event moved beyond a simple ‘role-play’ demonstration between therapists, and the felt experience of all participants, including the audience, provided rich discussion around what a therapeutic encounter feels like and how enacting it in a public space made it different and similar to any felt encounter in performance/art

  • A year later, having performed ‘the encounter’ four times with different audiences and participants, we find that this project has grown

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Summary

Introduction

This video is from Concurrent♯2, January 2017 and forms part of an on-going artistic data collection. During this phase of the project a group of music therapists, musicians, dance-movement therapists, and dancers framed their live, improvised encounter with the question: Does the individual’s experience and perception of an encounter vary according to one’s role?. Concurrent, based at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh and funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, represents a hub for innovative improvised performance; for new research explaining the unique social and creative process of improvisation; and for the wider application of current thinking on improvisation, for instance in community music or other spheres of social interaction (Wilson, 2016)

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