Dance and architecture
Since our thoughts do not only live on concrete, buildings or efficiency, we are going to try to understand what relationship exists between dance and architecture. Yes, we know! The space, the visual space, the scene. But… Is there something else?
The header video, signed by TED celebrates "The power of x" to multiply the great ideas. It actually combines severaldisciplines different; mathematics, geometry, architecture and dance that, appropriately combined and seasoned with a touch of music by the Lebanese artist Yasmine Hamdan, make up an exquisite short by the We Are Pi agency. (To see the making of HERE, surprising for its few dancers)
Just one minute of reasoning is enough!… The protagonist of the following video "Architecture in motion - From GU San Sebastián", is Enara. He has two passions. The concerns of a girl who grew up dancing and when he had to decide, it was clear to him. I wanted to be an architect. Like the points that come together, or the cosmos that conspires, from one day to the next the stars aligned for Enara and everything finally made sense. From that moment on he has dedicated himself to observing and studying body movements with foundations mathematical and architectural. Besides dancing, of course! … But this explanation has been more than suggestive for its clarity and simplicity.
If we focus on the relationship betweenarchitecture and danceDespite being very different disciplines, they have a close relationship in their spatial vision and their creative process. They both work on space as raw material and complement each other in their plea. The architecture project could use the perception of the space of dance as a tool, for example, to enhance its spatiality. Architect, choreographer or dancer they work with their materials to form spaces.
The wise among the wise, L. Da Vinci affirmed that architecture and the human body are closely related; dance seeks the movement of the body through space, architecture seeks to create this space, ordering and hierarchical in a spatial composition.
As in architecture, that technology or geometry which plays an important role, it also enters the field ofchoreography and dance, exploring the field of spaces in an intimate way… A good representation of spaces in dance is the following video marvel. (For the desperate from minute 2)
Or light as the main element of the forms.Light and dance, dynamic dance and a body full of energy perfectly combined in the fight against the geometric shapes of light. It is a short film by the visual artist Marc-Antoine Locatelli made with the support of the dancer Lucas Boirat …
If architecture invades the space of the streets. The Butoh is a artistic expression of Japanese origin halfway between the modern dance, theater and street performance.
It does not tell a story, it lets the body speak for itself and demands the interpreter's emptiness to carry it out. To dance it one must forget all learned discipline, dancing Butoh is entering a world that has nothing to do with dances already existing. It does not have a specific terminology or a physical technique.
As a last note. If we want to delve further into the subject we can investigate from the Doctoral Thesis "Active matter: dance as a field of experimentation for architecture"by LA E.T.S. Architecture (UPM)
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