Holding the space: Choreography, architecture and urban heritage

Författare

  • Marie-Louise Crawley
  • Rosemary Kostic Cisneros

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5324/da.v6i1.3638

Nyckelord:

Architecture, choreography, Coventry, heritage, temporality

Abstract

This article responds to the interdisciplinary developments that choreography has undergone in the twenty-first century, in terms of a focus on relationships between dance, architecture, site and cultural heritage. It makes a claim for how choreography within the city manifests itself in the form of a public bodily act, as artistic boundary-crosser and socio-political agent. We explore this through the lens of a central case study: artist Anton Mirto’s Scaffolding (2019), a workshop-performance event for seven dancers sited within The Chapel of Many, an architectural installation by architect Sebastian Hicks and set inside the ruins of Coventry Cathedral (UK) as part of the Coventry Welcomes Festival’s Refugee Week. Grounded in an exploration of dance and architecture in terms of spatiotemporal relations following Rachel Sara’s (2015) framework of a transontology of architecture and dance and Rachel Hann’s (2019) concept of fast architecture, we argue for how the choreographic process of making Scaffolding speaks back to both the architectural space and the urban heritage site in which it is located and addresses a certain experience of temporality, history and memory. In turn, the potential political agency of such a performed conversation between architecture and choreography in the twenty-first century city is revealed.

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Författarbiografier

Marie-Louise Crawley

Dr. Marie-Louise Crawley is a researcher, choreographer and dancer. Her research interests include dance and museums, dance and cultural heritage and areas of intersection between Classics and Dance Studies, such as ancient dance and the performance of epic. She is Assistant Professor in Dance and Cultural Engagement at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE, Coventry University, UK).

Rosemary Kostic Cisneros

Dr. Rosemary (Rosa) Kostic Cisneros is a researcher, dancer, choreographer and curator who works closely with the RomArchive and many NGOs. She is involved in various EU-funded projects which aim to make education accessible to vulnerable groups and ethnic minorities, and part of cultural heritage projects that bring dance and digital technologies together.

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Publicerad

2020-06-24