Fortune Score
| A DANCE ORACLE?
Yes, it exists!
Fortune Score is a deck created for you to dig deeper into the practice of dance Improvisation, and Contact Improvisation.
As a self professed tarot and CI enthusiast, I blended the two to be used as an educational tool for facilitators and Contact Improvisation fans.
This game has been played many times in Jams and workshops where I teach in Bali and recieved positive reception.
| WHAT IS FORTUNE SCORE?
Fortune Score is an offering for personal further reflection during your dancing.
This oracle is effective at a round robin, festival, or contact jam.
Or, pull cards as your would for an everyday oracle and take the theme with you as you move through the world.
This is an oracle of "scores".
In improvised dance, we often use a dance "score", which is a suggestion or theme for you to keep in mind in the dance.
Each card offers you a fortune, like you'd pull from a fortune cookie.
These are prompts I've gathered from a variety of places.
Some I've made up.
Some are notes on mindfulness.
Some are pulled from 80's sci fi books (I kid you not).
Some are from various trainings and workshops I've attended in Contact Improvisation, (thank you to my teachers, like Sasha & Dolores, Vega Lukkonen, Peter Bingham & Martin Keough).
| STORY BEHIND THE DECK
Paxton held some of the first performances in Contact Improvisation in NYC, where they danced for five hours a day for a week at John Weber Gallery, with audiences streaming in and out.
In preparation, Steve went to Chinatown and had fortune cookies made with an invitation inside. The dancers went around handing the cookies to people on the streets of New York.
The fortunes said “Come to John Weber Gallery—Contact Improvisations."
This is my ode to that sense of humour, a tongue-in-cheek homage to the origins of CI.
This is my invitation to you to come and join the mystery of the dance.
| ORDER
Limited runs of the decks have been printed and already sold to other dance facilitators in Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Bali, Thailand, Denmark, Canada, and USA.
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Marble Peach - 20 decks
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