THE PROJECT
Dancing in space – movement through space. Doors open and bodies rise, weights are supported and dynamic force generates balance. When ideas merge into new worlds and reality and dreams become one. When buildings become mobile, people stationary, when doors become points of transition and door hinges points of connection, then we have arrived. Arrived in the era of inspiration, potential for dancing and mobile stability. Here, movement is transformed into dance and communication into music.
THE BOOK
The book “Movement in space” is the title of a collection of sophisticated, entertaining articles. SIMONSWERK builds an interdisciplinary bridge connecting space with dance notations, to highlight the common ground of stage design and architecture, choreography for ballet pieces and for interior design. Under the main themes of positioning, dimensions and variations, there are illustrated articles about various choreographies, pieces of architecture and SIMONSWERK. In the following, please read the contribution about the production by Sasha Waltz in the New Museum at its opening in 2009, and learn more about the architect Lucy Hillebrand’s interior design vocabulary.
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THE FILM
“Movement in space” is best visualised by way of a real motion picture. In the autumn of 2011 at the ballet centre tanzhaus nrw, SIMONSWERK produced a film expressing the relationship between movement, architecture and SIMONSWERK in choreography.
3:30 minutes’ aesthetic presentation of movement in space were cut and pieced together from 14 hours of film material. Mary Wigman (German dancer and choreographer, 1886-1973) accompanies the viewer with her poetic lines through the first scenes of the film:
“Invisible shapes and lines which can be sensed by the dancer’s soul are spread out across the floor. They rise and take on crystalline form: invisible palaces made of dance patterns. Each of the dancer’s movements becomes a part of the moving architecture. The union of body and space produces straight lines, circles, figures of eight, triangles, quadrangles and pentagons superimposed upon each other, crossing and intersecting each other, experienced three-dimensionally as spheres, pyramids and cubes.“
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