![]() ![]() Revolution contiene il lemma evoluzione ed il binomio rivoluzione-evoluzione è centrale nella sua poetica. Uno degli aggettivi più appropriati per descriverla è rivoluzionaria, tant'è che svariati articoli o libri a lei dedicati presentano nel titolo la parola rivoluzione (1). Il periodo tra fine '800 inizi '900 è contrassegnato da grandi cambiamenti in ambito coreutico e un personaggio simbolo che incarna tante delle novità del nuovo secolo può essere ravvisato sicuramente in Isadora Duncan. The selected projects outlining the site’s dynamics affected by Duncan’s presence today are: a) Architecture and dance workshop – Manolis Iliakis, Betty Dramisioti, Evelin Gavrilou, Duncan Dance Research Center, Athens, 2003 b) Her Topia: A dance – architecture event – Carol Brown and Doritta Hannah, Duncan Dance Research Center, Athens, 2005 c) Emersion – Viky Spanovagellis, Olga Spiraki, Kiriakos Spirou, Evangelos Papadakis, Duncan Dance Research Center, Athens, 2011 _ This lecture was written by Sofia Kondylia during October – November 2016 and was presented at the annual symposium of INDA foundation on December 16th, which took place at Palazzo Greco, Syracuse, Italy with the title “La leggera lievita dei piedi scalzi”. ![]() Over the past years the venue has hosted many projects, three of which have explored relations between dance and architecture by means of site specific research and performance always related to Duncan’s modernistic philosophy about freedom and beauty. Duncan Dance Research Center was inaugurated in 1992 and is now operating as a small scale Dance House covering diverse aspects of choreographic research creation and education. In 1980’s the Municipality of Byronas took over the reconstruction of the building founding a place dedicated to dance, which would carry their name. Based on the plans of Mycenae palace of Agamemnon, their construction at Kopanos hill in Byronas region in Athens was never finished. ![]() When she and her brother, Raymond, came to Greece, they decided to build a dance temple – a house, in which they could develop their ideas expressing their Hellenic dream. Isadora Duncan, a pioneer of the modern era, brought dance back to its primitive roots - and inevitably back to nature. The lecture discusses the symbolic meaning of dancing near stone architecture, as it was firstly articulated in Isadora’s Duncan dances, philosophy and methods and later evolved and devised into site specific dance – architecture research. ![]()
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