Dancing About Architecture: Making Space

Tour locations will be sent to registrants 24 hours prior to the event

This installment of the Schwarzman Center signature series Dancing About Architecture grew out of a collaboration with Yale Theater and Performance Studies Lecturer Iréne Hultman and was informed by Hultman's Yale College course, Moving Sites and Structures. An objective of the course—and this event—is to explore the intersection of forms, and to open dialogues between them…where dance, performance, and architecture, in communication expand the experiences of bodies in space. 
 
"Making Space" begins with a guided walking tour of Yale University locations within one mile of the Schwarzman Center, each featuring its own site-specific performance by students representing a wide range of academic disciplines and movement experiences. Inspired by the works of dance pioneers such as Merce Cunningham, and Trisha Brown, the performances focus on relation, relatability, and the dependence of architecture on human emotion. 

The event culminates in The Dome at Yale Schwarzman Center for a conversation with Jonathan Gonzaléz, Matthew Suttor,  Cristina Caprioli—moderated by director of the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University Joshua Lubin-Levy .

Performers: 

Elyne Wu,  Ethics, Politics & Economics   

Sonya Sagan-Dworsky,  Trumbull College Art         

Powell Munroe,  Davenport College   

Katia George,  Trumbull College, Religious Studies         

Emma Ventresca,  Benjamin Franklin College, Economics            

Melissa Wang,  Timothy Dwight College         

Sadie Pohl,  Saybrook College, TAPS                     

Xie Xinyl,  Guest - School of Architecture, visitor   

     
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Yale Theater and Performance Studies Lecturer Iréne Hultman recommends the book Untimely Moderns by Eeva-Liisas published by Yale University Press. LEARN MORE. 

     
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