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Dancing and drawing, choreography and architecture
Collaboration between choreographers and architects still usually takes the traditional form of the latter designing sets for the former, while research on the relationship between architecture and dance is scant. One of the few examples of a choreographer working with then-current architectural concerns is William Forsythe and the Ballett Frankfurt in the late 1980s, particularly in Enemy in the Figure (1989) and Limb's Theorem (1990). These pieces show a profound understanding of and engagement with architectural issues then being addressed by Daniel Libeskind. Forsythe's interest in Libeskind was not his ‘deconstruction’, as has often been asserted, but in his operations on drawing. Their coincidence of intellectual interests and resulting friendship allows us to see clearly how concerns in architecture were also explored through the medium of ballet. It is a reminder too of a period, postmodernism, when architecture led theoretical discussions.
Dancing and drawing, choreography and architecture
Collaboration between choreographers and architects still usually takes the traditional form of the latter designing sets for the former, while research on the relationship between architecture and dance is scant. One of the few examples of a choreographer working with then-current architectural concerns is William Forsythe and the Ballett Frankfurt in the late 1980s, particularly in Enemy in the Figure (1989) and Limb's Theorem (1990). These pieces show a profound understanding of and engagement with architectural issues then being addressed by Daniel Libeskind. Forsythe's interest in Libeskind was not his ‘deconstruction’, as has often been asserted, but in his operations on drawing. Their coincidence of intellectual interests and resulting friendship allows us to see clearly how concerns in architecture were also explored through the medium of ballet. It is a reminder too of a period, postmodernism, when architecture led theoretical discussions.
Dancing and drawing, choreography and architecture
Spier, Steven (author)
The Journal of Architecture ; 10 ; 349-364
2005-09-01
16 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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