This summer, Dancing Architects invites you to open up a fresh perspective of space and architecture by moving. The workshop will take place in Apulia, Italy. No prior dance or choreographic experience required.

An interdisciplinary exploration, the intensive workshop will take you to a personal journey of architectural choreography. The experience is sure to shift the way we engage with space and architecture towards new possibilities of design processes. Julie-Anne Stanzak from Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – a critically acclaimed Dance Theatre company in Germany - will help awaken our spatial intelligence through various movement workshops. With individual inner motivations and senses, participants will experiment and learn to express embodied ideas through the physicality of our bodies and choreography in relation to people; to objects; to the surroundings; to the streets and the city; and to the world around us – constantly transient in time and space that also change with our body and mind. Together, we will work towards creating a shared experience in the form of performance, as an experimental architectural dialogue. Our field of operation will be the beautiful and sustainable setting of Casina Settarte amongst ancient olive trees, as well as the urban streets and spaces in the white city of Ostuni, Apulia, in southern Italy, a short travel from Matera, the European Capital of Culture 2019. Expect to challenge the idea of architecture by moving together!

Activities include seminars on architecture and movement, discussions and tutorials, making of movement devices, performative presentations with invited guests.

Workshop date: 16 – 21 July 2019. Application is open until 20th June 2019, or until all places are filled. For more information and application, please visit www.dancingarchitects.org or www.facebook.com/events/2444159928949342/