TANZTHEATER IN CHINA
DANCING and VIEWING
Directors: Anna Borou Yu, Jiajian Min Advisor: Professor Wang Hui Year: 2016
TANZTHEATRE IN CHINA is designed as an innovative and experimental performance centre for modern dance in Shanghai, China.
This project explains the way how dance matters in the combination of human experience and architectural space. The connection of space, events and movements of human being leads to form architectural interpretation.
The documentary “Pina Bausch”, in memory of the First Lady of Modern Dance in Germany, is the basic foundation of the design. And the specific scenes from the documentary are prototypes of Pina Bausch’s choreography. The experiments from previous modern dancers lead to the translation from prototypes of Pina to architectural language. They are combined logically into sequences, then form a performance hall.
At the same time, the auditorium is deliberately designed for creating the best place of watching the scenes of specific prototype. The balconies in the auditorium are connected with corridors, which stands for the editing process in documentary. As audiences could choose their own path of watching the performance, it is a process of personal interpretation of the performance and the building.
舞蹈剧场是一种创新实验表演与现代舞剧场的探索，解读舞蹈为何是人类体验与建筑空间的结合。空间与事件的连接，身体的运动转译为建筑的空间语言。作品对Pina Bausch纪录片中的舞蹈原型进行抽象与空间转译，并结合为逻辑序列，形成一个全新的舞蹈剧场。为了更好观看特定的舞蹈原型选段，观众席在座位排布与观众视线上进行精心设计。而观众席通过连廊相互连接，暗示舞蹈记录片的剪辑过程。于此同时，观众可以在不同的观众厅区间游走与停留，同时观赏到特定或多个舞蹈表演原型，形成自己对于舞蹈与建筑的独特解读。
