Musings: Dimensions Variable - Gabrielle Lamb

​It’s always a pleasure for me to see new movers in new spaces. Such was the performance of Dimensions Variable, Gabrielle Lamb’s company, Pigeonwing Dance at the Moody Center For The Arts on October 9, 2025.  For just a quick commentary about the Q&A session following the performance. I tend to think Q&A’s are ripe with opportunity to see how the audience and artists connected throughout the performance. As always, this audience had thoughtful questions to ask. One audience member asking about the planning, choreography, and improvisation processed in the gallery space with Tishan Hsu’s exhibit of “Bio Morphe”. The questioner marveled at how the improvisational segments timed perfectly with the music. 
Dancers, in turn, marveled in response with delight at how serendipitous their movement production in real time seemed to respond to the movement and vice versa. While it is, indeed, one of the great delights of developing a dance piece inside improvisational scores, I would argue that it is not serendipitous. It is the nature of improvisation work; a result of the practice of improvisation and the lengthy efforts that dancers invest in training for sensitivity to movement, music, various environmental stimuli, and, most of all, internal response of their bodies for the work. I am not chastising these dancers for not realizing this, I’m simply noting this moment of epiphany and delight that they found these delicious moments within their project. Dance on, Lovelies, it was beautiful.