Archinect - News 2024-11-13T23:43:22-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/142370930/steven-holl-finds-genre-pushing-collaborator-in-jessica-lang-dance Steven Holl finds genre-pushing collaborator in Jessica Lang Dance Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-12-01T17:05:00-05:00 >2015-12-15T01:36:37-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/25/25a9806d44d3ad097f4fbb150cd0f256?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The hour-long performance uses Holl and Lang&rsquo;s year-and-a-half-long joint research project, Explorations In, as a point of departure. Lang&rsquo;s dancers bend and glide swiftly, under vivid projections of light, around the structures Holl crafted for Tesseracts of Time. The four sections of the performance&mdash;&ldquo;under,&rdquo; &ldquo;in,&rdquo; &ldquo;on,&rdquo; and &ldquo;over&rdquo;&mdash;evoke the architectural form of the body as the dancers &ldquo;engage in deep spatial constructions in inspiring ways,&rdquo; notes Holl</p></em><br /><br /><p>For more thoughts from Holl on&nbsp;<em>Tesseracts of Time </em>(his&nbsp;dance performance collaboration with Jessica Lang Dance for the Chicago Architecture Biennial) and other recent projects, check out our <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/140953853/a-dance-for-architecture-a-conversation-with-steven-holl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feature interview with him.</a></p>