ABSTRACT
Uncertainty and confusion can on occasion threaten to overwhelm those new to improvising. Feedback is one way of helping to make sense of this new experience. Telling each other about striking and beautiful moments at the end of a session can be a source of encouragement, assuring dancers that they were contributing to something that communicated powerfully to those watching. It can also provide an important means by which we can learn to remember and describe movement details. Feedback doesn't always, however, help us to understand how or why particular moments worked while other moments were less interesting, and it is just this that we need to understand both as improvisers and as choreographers.
