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Polyrhythm of body 

Emi Miyoshi uses dance improvisation techniques to explore choreographic notations based on polyrhythmic music theory. Polyrhythmic is the simultaneous use of two or more rhythms that are unlikely to be derived from each other or are simple manifestations of the same meter. Rhythm layers can form the basis of an entire piece of music (cross rhythms), or they can be instantaneous sections. Polyrhythms are to be distinguished from irrational rhythms, which occur within a single part. Polyrhythms require at least two rhythms to be played simultaneously, one of which is usually an irrational rhythm. Simultaneous playing in this context means that they are played within the same rhythmic cycle. The underlying pulse, whether explicit or implicit, can be viewed as one of the simultaneous rhythms. Rhythm plays an important role in this project. As a spontaneous rhythm in dance improvisation, Emi Miyoshi will engage with our internal rhythms (heartbeat, blood flow, menstrual mechanism), the changing seasons, the ebb and flow of the oceans, the movement cycles of the sun and planets, and so on. She is interested in the relationship between a very precise choreography based on academic methods and an intuitive movement based on free thinking. Just like in our lives, we have an exact routine of our lifestyle based on a vast organic system - the sun and the earth - and on physical and social systems. However, life is uncontrollable and we have to make thousands of decisions every day. Sometimes these decisions are based on sound reasons, sometimes they are made very emotionally, on a whim, or on intuition. As life moves through a series of such decisions, this project focuses on the rhythm in the dancer's body and explores how to incorporate the rhythms, movements and grooves that arise intuitively into a structured and precise rhythmic score in order to to create a landscape of the inner organism. 

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