Solid Senses: Laban Geometry of Dance
- When?
- Tuesday 14 June 2011, 15.00 & 19.30
- Where?
- PATS Dance Studio
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Admission price:
- Free to University of Surrey Staff and Students, £4 external
- Tickets:
- Tickets are available from the University Box Office: T: 01483 686876, E: boxoffice@surrey.ac.uk
Rudolf Laban’s unpublished drawings and his graphic representation of his icosahedral model in dance will be used for the first time to create a performance-based and artistic response.
This 30 minute choreography will explore Laban’s visual model of the icosahedron as the ideal Platonic solid within which to inscribe the harmonic and formal movement patterns or trace-forms of the dancing body. The piece will develop a choreographic interpretation of Laban’s unique vision, which combines visual art, dance and geometry in a unique understanding of bodily movement and patterning in relation to three-dimensional space. Laban also acknowledged in some of his drawings that geometric modelling not only corresponds to the formalisation of movement within a kinesphere, or the outer sphere within which a dancer moves, but that this geometric shape is also contained inside the body- thus linking macroscopic and microscopic space. Laban sketched patterns of human movement evolving from icosahedral shapes contained in what he called embryonic dance form, which is why our response will develop visual and choreographic analogies between Laban’s icosahedral model in kinespheric space, and the appearance of icosahedral shaped organisms, such as icosahedral viruses, at a microscopic level of the human body. The dancer will thus interact simultaneously with a geometric shape within and without its own corporeality.
Performance by Configur8 will be followed by specialist panel and Q and A.