produced by a student in Cal Poly Pomona's Landscape Architecture program, we're treated to some interpretive dance downtown. Lacking the bravura of dancers gliding across Frank Gehry's roofs, and the silliness of an improvisational dance in front of Gehry's Santa Monica home, the video instead earnestly showcases the landscape at three downtown sites: Rafael Moneo's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the Cornfields, and Thom Mayne's Caltrans building. Hm, three sites with plenty of room to dance, since all three have underutilized public spaces. We're just glad to see something happening in them, even if it has to be interpretive dance.
Over the past few decades there have been other such performances created as architecture school projects. Anybody else got them on film or willing to discuss their own inspired spatial movements?
Never heard about dancing to architecture. I have to admit that the video made me laugh. It's just a very odd scene but why not, it's a special and unique thing. Creativity is one of the characteristics many of the children nowadays don't seem to have.
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produced by a student in Cal Poly Pomona's Landscape Architecture program, we're treated to some interpretive dance downtown. Lacking the bravura of dancers gliding across Frank Gehry's roofs, and the silliness of an improvisational dance in front of Gehry's Santa Monica home, the video instead earnestly showcases the landscape at three downtown sites: Rafael Moneo's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the Cornfields, and Thom Mayne's Caltrans building. Hm, three sites with plenty of room to dance, since all three have underutilized public spaces. We're just glad to see something happening in them, even if it has to be interpretive dance.Over the past few decades there have been other such performances created as architecture school projects. Anybody else got them on film or willing to discuss their own inspired spatial movements?
i am a big fan of Bruce Nauman's work...
breakdancing in the park... been there... done that
hey, lb, we should get our kids to do this!
Ugh, I thought this was going to be a buildering video based on the screenshot above..
Never heard about dancing to architecture. I have to admit that the video made me laugh. It's just a very odd scene but why not, it's a special and unique thing. Creativity is one of the characteristics many of the children nowadays don't seem to have.
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