A project for DAS - "Dance Architecture Spatiality" international workshop, organised by the Erasmus program.
Gaia Ceresi (IT), Nikki Dretaki (GR), Eirini Cacari (GR) | Students
Manolis Iliakis, Monique Arnaud | Supervisors
Manolis Iliakis, Monique Arnaud | Supervisors
Vicenza, Italy July 2013 | Held
Stimulations |
Andrea Palladio and his works around Vicenza
"Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles that was the first work staged in Teatro Olimpico
"Don Giovanni" film directed by Joseph Losey
Q's |
How do people move in between the monuments?
Do they react with the past?
How do they relocate themselves in the labyrinths of the medieval town?
If the statues got breath how would they move?
statues |
in their manneristic poses look as if they are watching constantly throughout the centuries any action taken place below. They are present from the late Renaissance to our days and it seems that even whilst are able to adapt themselves to the modern way of living. We could certainly imagine their next movement.
disorientation |
refers to several points of this particular workshop.
The zigzag streets as well as the dead ends in the medieval town center provoke such feelings and force visitors to an ongoing planning of their courses. The young and charming nobleman Don Giovanni of the film seduces women leaving them desperate and alone afterwards to re-orientate themselves in their lives. Oedipus is another hero-victim of disorientation: he goes blind to punish himself as soon as he finds out the truth about his life. He tries thenceforth to orient himself by his senses however many times he needs to be guided by the people surrounding him. Mannerism itself encourages the artificiality and the pretentiousness in both architecture and arts, aiming mainly to shift the attention from the important to meaningless, from the foreground to background. Palladio is the first to have the architecture re-orientated towards classicism.
choreography |
begins with the awakening of two statues by the presence of a woman. They are moving slowly while the woman is moving to the rhythm of contemporary life. Once they gain awareness of their human existence, their movements become smoother while the woman’s motions become less tense. A new relation is now created and eventually an interplay of movements between them.
