The kinds of love and trust required to be an improviser are immeasurable. Just to think that even though some of what we do is based on memory, nostalgia and our past experiences – most of it lives in a realm of the nameless, the undefined, the timeless, the unknown. While the true meaning of an improvisation is often defined by a single choice, that one note that comes at the end of a phrase. In this way, improvisation can be thought of as a pilgrimage from the known through the liminality stage, towards a new mode of knowing. It is a constant falling in love with unknown destinations, and each time is new.
Love and Light
Nduduzo Makhathini
