Patterns are everywhere
Following on from my previous post here is a quote from Michael Klien, Steve Valk and Jeffrey Gormly in their Book of recommendations Choreography as an aesthetics of Change (2008). This short book is currently my favourite and most inspiring text on choreography , purchased several years ago but only really read in the last few weeks. In it they make the case for choreography's potential to act outside of the conventional structures of society
Patterns are everywhere. Patterns are in between, ephemeral but real. They are only visible to us under certain conditions, on certain wavelengths for us to grasp. The fact is that these patterns govern our lives. routines, solar systems, ordinary days and conversations — all governed by patterns of some sort . . . the patterns we live by
(...) We are inscribed with the capacity for original thought and the possibilities to bring about change. We can create and facilitate the conditions for something to happen, for patterning and re-patterning to occur. doing so is the act of the everyday choreographer — the negotiator, the navigator and architect of fluid ecologies we are all part of. This is the work of the choreographer of the bright everyday and everdark night.