Idea by
Rennie Tang and Lisa Sandlos
Soma-City
Call for ideas 2021
The Movement Choir Guide
The Movement Choir Guide
- New alliances
We are interested in movement vocabularies of those who do the work of caring for urban public spaces. Based on a study of these vocabularies we will create and develop a "Movement Choir," a collective experience that makes visible the human movement infrastructure involved in the care of public spaces. Movement Choirs, first developed by Rudolf von Laban in the 1920s, were originally produced as large-scale pageants to highlight the expressive dimensions of movements workers did in performing their industrial labour. We engage in the collaborative process of a Movement Choir to establish deeper connections between bodies, landscapes and public spaces – in other words, a human movement infrastructure. Using material collected from this process we will develop The Movement Choir Guide to include embodiment techniques, notation systems, and diagrams for use by designers interested in cultivating a culture of care in cities.
The Movement Choir Guide
The Movement Choir Guide
- New alliances
We are interested in movement vocabularies of those who do the work of caring for urban public spaces. Based on a study of these vocabularies we will create and develop a "Movement Choir," a collective experience that makes visible the human movement infrastructure involved in the care of public spaces. Movement Choirs, first developed by Rudolf von Laban in the 1920s, were originally produced as large-scale pageants to highlight the expressive dimensions of movements workers did in performing their industrial labour. We engage in the collaborative process of a Movement Choir to establish deeper connections between bodies, landscapes and public spaces – in other words, a human movement infrastructure. Using material collected from this process we will develop The Movement Choir Guide to include embodiment techniques, notation systems, and diagrams for use by designers interested in cultivating a culture of care in cities.