I worked on this aspect of dance and music during 2 projects:

In the first workshop I created several sequences with dancers, with the drawing only in my mind but not showing it to the dancers.

I had several characteristics such as "frozen" or "exhausted" in my mind, we had a phase of exploring and brought the ideas into a constellation of 3 dancers with stressful movement material and different levels at one certain place, with 1 dancer with an accumulative sequence, and with 1 dancer standing frozen up in the background, ... and so on.

After some work, we compared our sequences with the drawing, discussed about possible correlations or constituing breaches between drawing and dance pieces. The aim was to give the dancers ideas for further characteristic work without restricting them too much.

(After this an ongoing work could be to work out pieces for oneself with the drawing in the mind. Then e.g. compare the first dance sequence with the others.)

During another project I worked on the poem "Du musst das Leben nicht verstehen" of Rainer Maria Rilke. Each of the young grown-ups had a specific point of view to the poem (as well as me). Favoured Topics were beeing a child that doesn't wanna cling to certain experiences; that nobody can choose or determine ones life in all aspects oneself; being human without taking too much responsibility; or the "key words" such as "Haaren", "Hände", "Fest", and so on. A mind-map showed different approaches to the poem. The participants became aware of that there are many possibilities to deal with artwork, and the impossibility of direct translation from one art discipline to another. Together we decided several aspects of the poem to work with in dancing.

In this indeterminableness in literature, dancing and making music (...), I always find it exciting to explore similarities and references between things "that could be the same, but haven't to be".