Workshop DAS | Dance Architecture Spatiality
in Vicenza
Université Paul-Valery / Montpellier III
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier
Teachers: Frédérique Villemur, Partrice Barthès, Gisele Clement, Els Janssens
Università IUAV di Venezia
Teacher: Monique Arnaud
University of Derby
Teacher: Eleni Tracada
Vakalo College of Art & Design
Teacher: Manolis Iliakis
The workshop was held from 1-16 July and was part of the three-year international program Dance Architecture Spatiality, an Erasmus intensive program, conducted by Frédérique Villemur and organized by the Vakalo College of Art & Design (Greece), the University of Derby (UK), L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier (France), the University of Montpellier III Paul Valéry (France) and the Iuav University of Venice (Italy). In 2012 it took place in Athens and in 2013 in Vicenza and Venice.
The international workshop DAS (Dance, Architecture and Spatiality) united 20 students coming from different universities and colleges (departments of architecture, visual arts and musicology) to experiment with architectural spaces and more precisely Palladio’s works. After two weeks of working together they presented a somewhat unusual event.
In preparation the students used the movement and the voice to explore the Villa Rotonda, the Teatro Olimpico etc.The performance proposed a crossing and a highlighting of the historical centre of
The public performance «Edipo su corso Palladio», was a free interpretation of «Oedipe sur la route». The latter, by the recently deceased Henry Bauchau, gave a contemporary reading of Sophocles’ Oedipus, the inaugural piece of the Teatro Olimpico. This is why we recreated the journey of Oedipus, turning 2013
This performance was imagined and staged by the choreographer Patrice Barthès, supported by Els Janssens-Vanmunster for the research and the vocal approach.
A video of Eliott Z. Gualdi for the DAS workshop 2013 (Dance Architecture Spatiality) in Vicenza
