Play and Dance Improvisation: scores, games and challenges by Hermans Carolien

In the previous phases of my artistic research I built up a living archive of play activities that occurred close to my home. In the second phase, some of these play activities were re-enacted by dancers/performers in order to capture and get a deeper of understanding of the vitality affects, energy and intensities. In this phase I want to develop a play/dance improvisation workshop around the concept of participatory sense-making. I am therefore collecting games, scores, challenges that are developed by me or other.

Natural Tactile Textures

I have collected images of natural tactile textures:

materials or natural surfaces that have a 'high touchability'.

'The natural world is rich in texture: the surface of any visible object is textured at certain scale. A wealth of textures are observed on both artificial and natural objects such as those on wood, plants, materials and skin. In a general sense, the word texture refers to surface characteristics and appearance of an object given by the size, shape, density, arrangement, proportion of its elementary parts. A texture is usually described as smooth or rough, soft or hard, coarse of fine, matt or glossy, and etc.' (Auckland, School of Computer Science, n.d., par. 1).

Tacttile textures refer to the immediate tangible feel of a surface.

Textures:the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance.

– skin texture and tone

– the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface

– the physical feel of something — smooth, rough, fuzzy, slimy etc.

– the smoothness or roughness of the surface of an object

– tactile quality of an object’s surface that appeals to our sense of touch, and that may evoke feelings of pleasure, discomfort, or familiarity.

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