July 2011

Expanded Dance Space & the private choreography of public space

Photo : Bip Mistry

CiCi Blumstein’s month is based on her ongoing investigation of the moving body as the smallest architectural unit in the built & natural environment. Working across different fields, applying urban planning and architectural design directly to the body, her recent practice explores movement behaviour within private and public space, and the notion of ‘oddness’ in the public realm.

How do we inhabit these different realms? Could urban planning rules and architectural design, mediated through our personal movement experience, inform a choreographic score with which to directly shape the design of the built environment, and expand dance-able space further into the public architecture of the city?

Taking place across city-centre, semi- industrial & rural locations, CiCi’s programme will explore these themes through events, installations, talks, discussions, screenings & intensive workshops including: City- roaming movement training & Field Trips to expanded dance space locations across the South East region.

Photo : Bip Mistry

Drop-in, interactive Measuring Room and Urban Solarium installations exploring the movement of light mediated through architecture, spatial rationing, confidence & perception.

Making Dance Space design workshop with international architects & movement practitioners examining how dance space is currently defined and how it could be expanded, building a temporary dance- able structure to reflect their findings, and culminating in a performance/showing of the space in action.