Aristotelis triantis ‘Moments of Space’ Architecture1o1 Part2

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Part 2: From Place to Space Instructors: Stefano Mirti and Anne Sophie Gauvin.

ABADIR - Accademia di Belle Arti, Catania & Iversity


Dance and Space By Aristotelis Triantis

In a special and interesting program of

In Greek language the word dance interpreted as circular motion by rhythm and melody,

Biennial Sharjah 8 - 2007 and UNESCO

also identifies the measure that is assigned to a specific duration. The dance in a sense

entitled My City - Scenes and Sounds of My

defines and space occupied by the choreography sometimes not independent of the

City, from the selected final proposals as

particular characteristics of the place and the people who take part in it.

most valuable awarded the proposal of brazilian young children who live in favelas

The Pythagoreans is perhaps the first who opened the way of understanding the Space

and painted with chalks on the streets of

by means of correspondence of five polyhedra with natural elements and conceptual

their poor neighborhoods they dreams and

dimension given to them. Dominant by the dodecahedron the "Quintessence" who

desires, a disengagement through space and

identified with the "Picture of Everything " in the Timaeus the Locri in his work “About

time and appointed their own

Physio Cosmos and Souls” (Περί Φύσιος Κόσμω και Ψυχάς) calling “Familiar Shape of

psychogeography, paint with innocent and

the Sky”. “ΟΙΚΕΙΟΝ ΣΧΗΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΟΥΡΑΝΟΥ”.

sincere mood that we all had a moment like children.

The movements and vibrations of the human body outline a kind of geometry, sometimes repeated with rhythmic continuity, even those ecstatic dances of ancient

It's not wonder that the same causes and

Dionysian tradition in the course of evolution has codified to the ancient theater and

needs guide people from prehistory to the

every movement and every utterance of speech and each emotional and psychological

present day. The admiration we have for

response provided conceptual and practical space of time and place. Another example is

amazing monuments of the past comes from

that ecstatic dance of the Sufi with characteristic swirling around the dancer himself.

the same need or anxiety to define our own time into the finite space, which is why we

In modern choreography in some cases we find courage and aesthetic perception as in

remain in awe in front of monuments like

excellent trilogy Distancia 2014 by the Swiss theater group Alias https://vimeo.com/

Stonehenge, the Pyramids, Knossos etc.

companyalias. Here the dancers naked bodies compose the space, the movements correspond to sounds and expressive forms, we can find something similar back in

In a past the great philosopher Empedocles

ancient Greek poetry with the influence of music who corresponded as medium

from Akragas in one of his great thoughts

between the "Cosmic All" and the human context. In ancient Greek spirit and body are

concentrated in one sentence and maybe

integrated.

gave us one of the best examples of "Chaos”, ie the infinite, the unstructured and timeless

Excellent case of conceptual approach of the space is the Japanese theater “NO” with

space in Greek philosophy and cosmogony

the simple stage configuration. A square tent with the aging pine painted on the back

with this words.

cloth of the scene, a corridor in the left the "chasigkakari" and along the equidistant three small trees. All complemented by four columns of the roof, a wooden box that

“The nature of God is a circle of which the

can be altar, throne or to serve other various theatrical needs, and the public around the

center is everywhere and the circumference is

three sides viewing the scene, the space is in front of us.

nowhere” - Empedocles

Spiritually we are responsible how will define our place what meaning we give to it, and

Show and Obscurity existence and

how will defend it. Such as the ancient people who should be first well versed for

nothingness structuring the space in which

geographical conditions of a region before choosing as a place of habitation, to know the

we are an integral part with never-ending and

climate, sources and orientation towards the particular spiritual and religious centers.

beginning and this is our position in it.

References: Edward A. Lippman - Moral perception of music in ancient Greece. Vlassis G. Rassias - “Thyrathen” Philosophical Dictionary. UNESCO - My City – Scenes and Sounds of My City. http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18446&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html


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“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.� -Nietzsche


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