ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on a 12-year collaboration between an architecture educator and theorist, and a dance educator and artist. The collaboration resulted in a series of workshops, which use the processes of dance to develop an understanding that is located somewhere between the two disciplines. The chapter draws from architectural theory in conjunction with references to the collaborative work in order to theorize a relationship between architecture and dance. It presents the collaboration as an attempt to develop a new trans-ontology that is between architecture and dance. The combination of understanding space and event as mutually constitutive, and the perceived problems with contemporary architecture's overemphasis on the visual, highlights the opportunities for understanding, investigating and creating spaces through means outside of the norms of architectural production. The chapter concludes by locating architecture and dance, which are normally separated by distinct ontologies, as part of the same continuum.
