”The visual as score” is a workshopmodel for supporting dancers own creative work by using dialogue as

a pedagogical tool and working with material inspired from the aesthetics of the surrealisms’ art direction.

Our question is in what way dialogue, surrealistic pantings and dreams as score can be used to support

dancers’ own creative work. For this we have created a workshop consisting of both individual and group

tasks. The material we have worked with is surrealistic paintings by artist Joan Miró and a dream diary

written by the participants of the workshop. The work we do in the studio includes dialogue with analysis

of the paintings, reflection, and discussion before and after tasks as well as after a presentation of the

process in working with the material. After reading the participants comments we realize we have

succeeded in creating an environment for own creative and evocative work where the participants have

stated that they have been able to use their creative selves. In the future, however, we want to develop the

workshop by splitting up working with paintings and dreams in two different workshops as well as trying out the workshop with different groups of dancers and other participants.