Architecture of the Urban Body

Currently, contemporary dance brings to the surface a freedom of creation and invention of movements, the possibility to awaken and to develop an authentic and original score in any body, without the need for aesthetic standards, spectacular techniques that require great experience, or physical limitations due to age or even physical disabilities, as anybody that moves can generate their own dance. Just as in architecture, from the empty space the building appears, from the static body comes the dance.

Architecture as an object that awakens perception for creation and the body as a way of expressing speech, using the geometry of movement as a tool to search for a choreographic inscription coherent with the representations, contexts, and texts that connect architectural works. From the occupation of the various spans of the Fernando Leite Couto Foundation building, seeking visual connections between the building and this “urban body” of the dancer; produced by simultaneous body movements, in a fusion of signs that make us reflect in this context, to raise the question: Which dance for which space?

Within this reasoning, we present “Architecture of the Urban Body”, a performance – the result of choreographic creation by Pak Ndjamena in a proposal of a choreographic route throughout the internal area of ​​the FFLC building, as a guided tour through dance as a new possibility of interacting and occupying the space in a poetic and critical way with your own body.