Hampshire College • Mettler Archive • Movement Improvisation

“Movement Improvisation“, 1957. Shot on 16mm film. “Movement Improvisation“ is narrated by Barbara Mettler and explores the different ways one can improvise with movement, whether that be with singular parts of the body (i.e., arms, legs, heads, hands, and feet), with the whole body, or as a part of a duet or trio or larger group. Mettler also talks about design techniques in improvised dance. This video contains four sections, three of which have detailed narrated descriptions of techniques from Mettl