1. Dance is Architecture
in Motion.
About the shared vocabulary and concerns of
seemingly opposite art forms.

2. • choreographic algorithm (Improvisation
Technologies)
• choreographic object (Synchronous Objects)
• choreographic construction

3. Dance is architecture in motion.

5. Kinesphere — the total volume of a body’s potential movement, the
intangible space the moving human body produces. It is best described by
the geometrical form of an icosahedron and its centre is the Solar Plexus,
the pivotal point for any movement.

6. “Movement is, so to speak, living
architecture – living in the sense
of changing emplacements as well
as changing cohesion.
The architecture is created by
human movements and is made up
of pathways tracing shapes in
space.“ (Rudolf Laban, Choreutics)

8. "As an architect I sit in front of my
computer, I click through
the different menus of the CD and
I get overwhelmed by a glaring
similarity to the interface of my
CAAD program." (Britta Callsen 1995)

10. “With the CAAD program I construct a
building with lines, polygons, circles which
are basic geometric figures. I click the
command ‘line’ to define two points and I
draw a line between them.
In order to view it in the right position I
take the line and turn, twist, flip it in the
virtual space. It is the same operation
Forsythe demonstrates on his CD when
he describes the relationship between
parts of the body in motion.” (Britta Callsen)

11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X29OjcBHG8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0bVWwmCiYY

12. “Dance and Architecture have much in common.
Both are concerned with practices of space.
For a dancer the act of choreography as a
writing of place occurs through the unfolding of
spatial dimensions through gesture and
embodied movement. For the architect space is
the medium through which form emerges and
habitation is constructed. For both, the first
space we experience is the space of the body.”
(Carol Brown, choreographer)

13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQx5KNl6JOM&feature=related

16. “Space lays down the law because it implies a
certain order [...] Space commands bodies,
prescribing or proscribing gestures, routes
and distances to be covered.”
(Henry Lefebvre, The Production of Space)

17. 4-dimensional 3-dimensional

18. Stasis
from Greek στάσις
"a standing still"
referring to
architecture, the
immovable building,
the static
Ecstasy (ex-stasis)
from Greek -έκ στασις
"to be or stand outside
oneself, a removal to
elsewhere”
referring to dance, the fugitive,
ephemeral movement, the
dynamic

20. at rest put into relation
and action
functional architectural elements

22. http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/content.html

26. choreographic algorithm -
a set of well-defined instructions for moving

27. choreographic object -
a manifestation of choreographic information;
an alternative site to the dancing body where
choreographic ideas can reside

28. choreographic construction -
the structure or the creation of a kinetic event

29. 1. Design a 5 min’ choreographic
construction for 5 dancers based
on the architect’s drawings.

30. 2. Form groups of 5 dancers and
choose a choreographic
construction, which none of you
has designed and stage it.

31. • Any choreographic piece is an
architectural structure or construction.
• Any dancer is a body of geometric
forms or architectural elements.
• Both can complement each other.