Carla Collevecchio’s research project ‘Performative Bodies’ traces influences between the Bauhaus Theatre Workshop by Oskar Schlemmer in Germany and the Ballet Suedois by Rolf de Mare in Paris, to investigate how the paradigm of body, movement and space influenced the historical development of performative arts and dance in Sweden.
Without the body there is no space, nor architecture to be perceived. This assumption is as obvious as it is radical. Space influences movements and behaviors, so it must be designed with fully awareness of its consequences and impact on living. What is the effect that space can have on body movement? How can body movement affect the creation of space itself? What are the mechanisms to choreograph this inseparable relation between body and space?
The aim of this investigation is to map and articulate historical cases that radicalized this relation between body, movement and space as a synthesis of arts, looking closer at the performative art scene in Sweden, using the Bauhaus Stage Workshop and Ballet Suedois as the references for experimentation and materialization. By constructing a new genealogy, this research will provide new clues about the role of performance as a spatial practice.
The research will include contemporary performance and its relationship to architectural space, for example LIB with choreography by Alexander Ekman, Staatsballet Berlin, 2019.