Conceiving shapes as products of a function, it's an exercise that helps avoiding judgments such as beautiful and ugly, making one see beauty in the events that shaped a form rather than in the resulting form it self. In choreography She's intrigued by what moves rather than nice movement. In movements and shapes one can find the principles that constitute them; I'm interested in the city as a form, because is an aesthetic body, a palimpsest, a concrete memory in which generational transit is readable. During her research she hopes to find a line of thought that links the cities examined and hope to be able to trace an ideal history of urbanism, synthesized into a performance of choreography and model-making.
The type of staging she intends to pursue. Two performance modes that run at the same time: a dance section based on the principle of accumulation of movement, and a section in which cities made out of sugar cubes are built and destroyed in different and playful ways. Starting by building a prehistoric village over which more complex conurbation are erected, so to reveal the layering of time and space that defines a settlement.
This "building-block game" is an experientional approach to the science of urbanism: of history, sociology, aesthetics; and it's an observation of ones own thought process while caught in the time of deciding where to locate a sugar block, or in the case of dance, ones body. At times is the action that defines a space/condition and other is the space/condition that characterizes an action. In the performing bodies are blended cause and effect, morals, frights, desires concerning the ever existing relation between humans and the modification of a landscape/space.
This research on real and utopian urbanism, invites the spectator to look at cities as if they were books to be read through the bricks and cement, and to see ones living condition not separated from the places one lives and the movements that formed them.
