Site-Specific Dance

Site-Specific Dance
Independent Study, 2009

Using Laban exercises to test movement potential along the vertical, sagittal, horizontal, and diagonal axes, I would then allow the environment to influence my movement. While the rectilinear dance studio was a blank slate which did not predispose me to any kind of movement, the stimuli of a particular architectural space inspired new movements.

Top: Creating chaos by moving tangible material of space (chairs) Middle: Interacting with Edges Bottom: Interacting with Supports

Top: Creating chaos by moving tangible material of space (chairs)
Middle: Interacting with Edges
Bottom: Interacting with Supports

Constraints can be Supports

Constraints can be Supports

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