Catch-Phrase Technique

Phoenicia and Kat show a catch phrase generated collaboratively for Phoenicia's character, Isadora Duncan. The catch phrase technique is when one person "the catcher" observes the other person improvise until they see something that he or she is attracted to, and after saying "stop" aloud, the catcher must repeat the movement back to them as best they can. The improviser then re-learns the movement as translated through the catcher's body. The roles reverse and back and forth, stringing the movements together one after the other. I learned a version of this technique from Susan Marshall during a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.