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From Pas de Deux
to Pas dEspacePlace- and Space-specific PerformancePractices.
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place-specific vs. space-specific: Boxed
(performance by Sevens Sisters Group)
Interior Design and Landscape Architectureas site-specific practices
Pas dEspace - Duet with Space
phenomenology, Gaston Bachelard
The Poetics of Space: Corners
choreographic task
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What we might call space-specific performances engage
with formal parameters; whilewhat we might call place-specificperformances engage with
cultural and social meanings.Source: Performance Studies International. Site-Specific Performance
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Space lays down the lawbecause it implies a certain order[...] Space commands bodies,
prescribing or proscribinggestures, routes and distances tobe covered.(Henry Lefebvre, The Production of Space)The Production of Space)
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model
journey
collage
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interior design site-specificperformance
site-specific performancesite-specific performancematerials
structures
lights atmospheres
scales
sites
themes
colors
movements
aesthetics
additional lights atmospheres
costumes
people/characters
themes/subjects
colors
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In classical ballet the Pas de Deux(French, step/dance together) is theterm for codified partner work. In site-specific performance the Pas dEspace
(French, step/dance with space) mightbe the term for partner work betweenbody and architecture?
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CI techniques
rolling or jumping point of contact
counter balances
giving and taking weight
lifting and being lifted
etc.
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The discipline of phenomenology may be definedinitially as the study of structures of experience, orconsciousness. Literally, phenomenology is thestudy of phenomena: appearances of things, orthings as they appear in our experience, or the
ways we experience things, thus the meaningsthings have in our experience.
Source: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/(Retrieved 20/02/2010)
(Retrieved 20/02/2010)
(Retrieved 20/02/2010)
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Inhabited spacetranscends geometricalspace. (Gaston Bachelard)
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Develop a short sitespecific performance for
one of the corners of thisstudio based onBachelards ideas in the
Poetics of Space.
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