ABSTRACT
As a choreographer, I am interested in making connections between bodies and environments, in making space speak through a dynamic exchange between dance and architecture, and in shifting audience expectations about how and where one might come to experience a dance. This writing explores spatial practices in dance through an understanding of architecture as an inhabiting force within choreography. Relationships between space, corporeality and architecture are core to
the taking place of dance as performance and become entwined within practices of making. Through working at the interface of choreography and architecture in collaborations with performance designers and architects, spatial praxes become generative forms for new choreographies. In writing out of and into this experience of making dance-architectures, I draw upon critical practices in architecture and theories of corporeality to (re)inscribe the spatiality of my practice and open it to questions concerning relationships between the insides of the body and its constitutive outsides.
