Title page for ETD etd-07202005-202406

Type of Document

Master's Thesis

Author

Lorenzen-Schmidt, Timo

Author's Email Address

timo@lorenzen-schmidt.de

URN

etd-07202005-202406

Title

On Dancing with Architecture

Degree

Master of Architecture

Department

Architecture

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
Emmons, Paul F.	Committee Chair
Frascari, Marco	Committee Member
Piedmont-Palladino, Susan C.	Committee Member

Keywords

Architecture
Dance
Representation
Shadow
Light
Magic

Date of Defense

2004-09-17

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

"I would like to - sometime - build a theater which
has natural light..."
Louis I. Kahn "Space and the Inspirations" 1967

Titled "On Dancing with Architecture" and in reference
to Merce Cunningham's choreography, this thesis project
is the notion of overlaying architecture as a third
autonomous layer to the existing ones in the performance
arts that are dancing and music. Since the project
is equally concerned with the performers and the
audience as well as with the general public, it shall
contain a nonstandard performance stage for modern
dance as well as general public space.
However, what does it mean to give shape to the notion
of "Dancing with Architecture" in actual physicality?
In order to investigate an appropriate answer to this
problem, the project offers a unique opportunity of
applying architecture's power of representation in rich
analogies and metaphors. Therefore more than designing
just a theater that serves for dance, this space shall
be a place that, in its appearance as a whole and in
detail, represents the tale of its initial challenge and
investigation.
In addition, and as part of being a nonstandard stage
for modern dance, the project shall critically review
conventions in stage space and offers the opportunity
to investigate it under a different scope, for instance
through the question of how to increase the spectator's
spatial experiences and interactivity with the performers,
or through exploiting natural phenomena such as
daylight, wind, water, landscape, time and gravity as
stimulating factors to introduce new facilities in modern
dance.

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