ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that materials such as fabric are: processual, reciprocal, relational, bodied choreographies. It narrates engagements and extended periods of experimentation with long lengths of translucent fabric, moving, composing, and experimenting together. We explore the possibilities for fabric as experimental and gestural co-compositions, paying careful attention and getting to know its qualities, movements, and provocations so that we could more effectively correspond with it. Fabric draws children together, reveals, hides, and activates improvisational dialogues. A game of exposing and enclosing emerges as the fabric hides and reveals. Thinking with Manning and Massumi’s work, the chapter enters into composition with fabric, not just using it for our purposes, but searching for a way to attune ourselves, as children and teachers together, to fabric’s own rhythms, movements, and propositions. In this, we discover a dynamic interplay of fabric and fiber, one of connectivity, becomings, and choreography of movements and relations.
