Dancing bodies and the architectural built environment manipulate space, in this case dance and architecture share the same concern, and the shared concern is space.

But what is space? Is it static and always there, or is it ‘produced’ by movement and by construction? Is it three-dimensional as we commonly understand it, or is Time also part of the equation, as Einstein and the physicists after him have proposed – giving us notions of ‘spacetime’? Is it measurable, or is space itself a measure? Is it a conceptual framework, or does it have its own ontology – its own nature of being and existence? Is space a perception? Can it be owned or, what do we really own when a ‘space’ is ours?

These are not my questions; they have been, for centuries, part of the philosophical and scientific discourse about space. They make it clear at once that space and spatiality – or spatial property – are complex and multi-layered; the space which dance and architecture claim to share is not only physical, for there is more to space than we see in its physicality.

The more one thinks about it then, the idea of ‘space’ is neither neutral nor universal: space is a concept underpinned, simultaneously, by historical, geographical, social, political and cultural significations. There is not one space but many spaces, simultaneously intersecting each other, just as there is not one dance and one architecture but a plurality of differently conceived dancerly and architectural endeavours.

Restriction

Mudchute Site

I choose Mudchute farm as a site. I was thinking about the contrast between Canary Wharf and Mudchute farm. How we can travel by DLR in couple of minutes from a major business district bristling with lights, gestures to a little farm where the sun, dust amuse themselves in silence.

One of London's largest farms, Mudchute Park and Farm covers 32 acres in the Isle of Dogs. The farm itself is surprisingly compact, but full of animals, many out in the fields, plus a petting zoo and duck pond.Mudchute is a locality just south of Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs in Docklands, London, England. The name of the area is in testament to the engineering overspill when Millwall Dock was being constructed in the 1860s. Spoil from the excavation of the Dock, and silt from its channels and waterways were dumped on nearby land, using a conveyor system.
The end of this system, where the rich Thames mud was deposited, was literally a mud chute, and the area of fertile, hilly land thus created became known as "The Mudchute". This area quickly established itself as a wildlife habitat and adventuring location for local children. Over time this developed into a park and a small city farm, which proved popular with dock workers and their families.

DLR Space Time Analysis Video 

So this is the new video i made for the DLR space time analysis.
This time i chose to do the acting myself because it was very difficult last time to explain to my friend what to do and how to do it, she just didn't get it...... so i didn't really get the results i was hoping to get, plus it's very intimidating to act and dance in the DLR as passengers stare at you like an alien, plus i got stopped every single 10 min and got asked for a license from the DLR which obviously i didn't have.
So i asked one of my friend to film me this time, it wasn't easy at all!!It was his first time filming and i insisted on him filming from certain angles and zooming into certain things, but he was intimidated by the crowd and he wouldn't do it...we spent hours and hours just trying to get one single shot right the way i wanted it!!
It was exhausting and he got fed up of it after couple of hours...luckily i managed to get couple of footage and play with it to create this video.
Overall i think it's ok as the first video i made, i posted it on Facebook, it had lots of great comments...it still needs couple of changes like overlaying the map to understand the movement when I'm trying to locate the destination, reverse some of the footage to understand that we are going back in time.....
Im working on it and will post it very soon !!
The difficulty lies in acting and managing the camera when I'm not the one handling it, so i get distracted from the initial thing i was planning to do, although i had it all written down on a piece of paper
The great thing about it is i love dance and expressing ideas and feelings and i get great buzz out of it!!
Representing architecture through dance is something new to me but i'm loving it.
My tutor Nic was right when he said you need to do something you are passionate about!!

DLR Space Time Analysis Drawings

The robots are a representation of the commuters movements in the DLR which are performed in a very chronic and robotic way, which then convey the idea of commuters as robots

These drawing were an attempt to represent not a fixed moment,but a dynamic sensation.

I wanted the drawings to appear lively and dynamic, as if they represent a passing moment in time, captured by our peripheral vision.

I wasn't really successful in my depiction of movement, so i am working on a new one!!

A leading founder of Futurism and Futuristic painting, Giacomo Balla would become one of the most famous artists of this movement along with Umberto Boccioni and Carlo Carra.

Speed + Sound, 1913-1914

Balla painting, Speed of a Motorcycle, 1913

A Child Runs Along a Balcony, 1912

Futurism

Italian Futurism was the first movement of the twentieth century.

Founder FT Marinetti says: " what we want to do is to break down the mysterious doors of the impossible "

It characterises both the movement and stimulating experimentation.

The invention of a new dimension of languages flexible enough to express the range experience open to man in the dawning century of speed mobility and scientific advance.

Futurism is grounded in the complete renewal of human sensibility brought about by great discoveries of science.

Those people who make use the telephone, the train, .....not realise that these various mean of communication on transportation and information have a decisive influence on their psyches.

An ordinary man can in a day's time travel by train from a little dead town of empty squares where the sun, dust amuse themselves in silence, to a great capital city bristling with lights,gestures and street cries.

DLR Space Time Analysis Video 

This is the first video i made for DLR space time analysis.
Its an attempt to represent my journey to university in the DLR, from Bank to Cutty Sark station.
I want to expand this idea of the DLR journey as a set of movements by envisioning a dance which i am attempting to convey through the moving image.
The DLR video is short, just 1min long, yet still manages to evoke a story.

  DLR Space Time Analysis

Both drawing and film are after all about time, and time is a critical issue.
Drawings and film represent time in different ways, this drawing is the accumulation of movements in the DLR journey, yet it seems to represent a single frozen moment, when the image is caught and held forever.

  

An illustration that pairs architectural history with various styles of dance.

Dance & Architecture

                                   Oskar Schlemmer: relationship between the body and the space it occupies      through geometrically defined costume.

                                           

                                 Rudolf Laban: movement theorist, developed a system, Labanotation,

for describing and notating human movement.

                                          Digitally choreographed movment through motion tracking

“Dance and Architecture have much in common. Both are concerned with practices of space. For a dancer the act of choreography as a writing of place occurs through the unfolding of spatial dimensions through gesture and embodied movement. For the architect space is the medium through which form emerges and habitation is constructed. For both, the first space we experience is the space of the body.” – Carol Brown, contemporary (London-based) choreographer, explores overlaps between architecture and choreography through site specific work often involving close collaborations with architects.

Space Harmony 

Motion in connection with the environment / spatial patterns & pathways

The first time i started the DLR space/time analysis, i looked at people's ways of moving in the dlr space that are specifically harmonious in the same sense music can be harmonious.
Space harmony sometimes takes the form of set scales of movement within geometric forms.

Beat represented by a Visual

Beat represented by a Visual
The bass beat is synchronised in time with landmarks moving past, as they repeat landmarks movement multiple times. Also, as the beat is building up to the main section, so too do the surroundings increase, ranging from countryside to cities.

The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar