Spatial Appropriations of Dance: From Private Space to Public Space

Abstract

Architecture has always played a very important role as a mediating art between man and the world: initiating, organising and directing movement, as if it were a choreographer. This article studies the inseparable relationship that dance and choreography have to architecture and space, albeit from a different point of view: MARTA LLORENTE PASCUAL _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________ 368 Arte y Ciudad - Revista de Investigación 2013 (Junio) nº 3 (I) Extraordinario analysing the path of dance´s spatial appropriations, it´s interaction with architecture and with the city. This dialogue between disciplines has its origins in the ancient world, and reaches a boom period at the beginning of the 20th century with the Vanguards (New Dance pioneers) and later on with Performance Art, through the decontextualization of different art forms. It arrives to present times through choreographers such as Trisha Brown, Pina Bausch, Sasha Waltz, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Wim Vandekeybus as well as through many initiatives all over the world that weave together dance and urban space. A study of the work of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker will be focused on as a key example.