Movement at the Mies (2022)

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Movement at the Mies was a site-specific, experimental dance exploring the dynamic between Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's architecture and the human body made in collaboration with the Eskenazi School of Architecture, and musician, Christian Courage Barda.

 
Mies, the architect of the building in which the dance takes place, was a pioneer of modernist architecture. He was a devotee of minimalism and simplicity; he strove for his buildings to contain space for freedom and open space. As a leader of avant-garde innovation, he challenged his peer’s ideas of ornamentalism and traditionalism. These are values that are inextricable to my postmodern dance training.  This intersection between architecture and dance was at the center of the piece.
 

This piece was a choreographic study of how Mies' architectural themes could be translated into a collection of human bodies within a confined and engineered space, using postmodern dance movements. The dancers were used as an aesthetic juxtaposition of Mies' work as well as a complementary abstract element.
 

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