Dancing Architects

Approaching architecture through choreography and as choreography, the transdisciplinary research platform Dancing Architects (DA) cross-pollinates architecture with contemporary dance investigating how choreographic thinking and its creative process can inspire and provoke architecture in its making and experience. By activating architectural ideas through the physicality of our bodies, DA’s inquiries seek for alternative dialogues by placing the architectural experience at the core.

Moving is a different form of learning by doing. Moving is in fact a constant decision-making, a study in the act of doing. Our analogue body is full of imagination and intelligence that embodies empirical knowledge.

DA engages with movement as an agency and medium for architecture through the lens of embodied and intangible choreographies that make up the world. It invites transformative shifts in our perception while enabling us to naturally engage with human senses and emotions as values. Moving together also let us learn to trust oneself and one another with a deep sense of sharing and togetherness that contribute to our collective future. By allowing not knowing where this journey might take us to, we arrive at unexpected and enriching.

DA hosts workshops in different cities in the world exploring various urban, cultural and natural landscapes and behaviours; creates architectural experiences and events; and teaches in architecture courses; always by moving; and moving together.

Founder, Creative Direction: Takako Hasegawa 

Choreography Lead: Julie Anne Stanzak (Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch)