Searching between dance and space

Student team: Maria Aggelidou, Maria Papadopoulou
Professors: D.Papalexopoulos, A.Stavridou
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Presentation date : March 2012

And so it is an attempt to study the notion of space, central to the architecture practice, through the field of dance, as the dance is an event with high mobility and a practice with dominant reference to space.

The focus is on the choreography as an organizational form of the kinetic state of the human body and a process of production of space.  Each dance performance has a unique structure function, however, and various other characteristics. The investigation and segmentation of this structure leads to assumptions and conclusions about the relationships between the elements that constitute it.
In addition, there is a reference to the mental drawing tools of choreography, through which the dance is ultimately perceived and the space is being produced. Moreover, any attempt to establish everything observed from the field of dance in this of architecture.

The narrative seeks, through the above, a visa for the concept of space based on the axis: fact- recording- process- structure- changing- event, that is located in the dance. The dance is treated as a force field and the choreographic work as a mixing pot of these forces, just as it happens while an architectural project. Besides, ''architecture is not only space and form, but also action and event and what happens in space''.

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