movement interviews

MOVEMENT INTERVIEWS 

A movement interview is a movement methodology and inquiry practice designed by dancer/ choreographer Coco Karol to address the diversity of knowledge systems at play in the construction of cultural and personal histories. Karol uses movement and a poetic lines of questioning to interview people about how they make meaning of their personal experiences. The technique uses gentle movement and language in a 20-30 min interview with the idea that bodies are archives of memory and knowlege and that when we are in movement we have a different type of access to language and memory that affords new or different connections. Interviews are often done in pairs, where one person witnesses and transcribes for the other before switching roles.

Karol uses movement interviews to create the librettos for choral performances with Sxip Shirey. The final performances, such as The Gauntlet and We Don't Need the Sea to Drown, immerse audiences in the stories from the interview prcoess as they are sung around them.