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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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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tjQQQO9QXA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tjQQQO9QXAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tjQQQO9QXA

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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)

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/

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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.