Fugue

structuring movement phrases according to musical principles

In this six-minute study, a collaboration with the dancer Claudia Greco, we played with the possibility of structuring movement phrases according to musical principles. We partly used chance procedures to determine various parameters, creating phrases for the upper & the lower body, then put them together in contrapuntal ways, playing with compositional structures such as inversion & retrograde. It is loosely a four-part fugue, with two “voices” in movement, & two in sound.