DRAMATIC ARCHITECTURES

places of drama - drama for places

conference proceedings

Edited by

Jorge Palinhos and Maria Helena Maia

CEAA| Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo (uID 4041 da FCT)

Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP), Porto, Portugal
Title:
DRAMATIC ARCHITECTURES. places of drama - drama for places
Conference Proceedings

Editors:
Jorge Palinhos & Maria Helena Maia´

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1ª edição, Porto, Novembro de 2014

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places of drama - drama for places

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Project Dramatic Architectures

ESAP/2013/P08/TRV

Architectural Studies Research Group

CEAA| Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo (uID 4041 da FCT)
Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP), Porto, Portugal

Porto: ESAP, November 3rd -5th, 2014

DRAMATIC ARCHITECTURES
places of drama - drama for places

Architecture and theatre have had a close connection throughout time, but this
connection, and the ways these two art forms intertwine through multiple
dimensions, is still an undeveloped field of study, highly promising for both arts
as a way of apprehending and transforming space.
With this Conference, we invite Portuguese and international scholars and artists
to contribute to the development of knowledge in this field, mainly furthering the
understanding of of the use of architectonic spaces by theatre and performance,
the use of buildings as performing spaces and the adaptation of previous theatre
venues to contemporary practices of performing arts.
Papers about how architecture can be dramatized, and how one can build
dramaturgies about specific sites will be welcome. But we are also interested in
creating a theoretical framework based on common ground between architecture
and performing arts, like the problems of space and the use of light as a
projectual device, besides case studies and interpretations of architectural,
dramatic, performative experiences.
Contents

Dramatic Architectures. Places of drama – drama for places

Keynote adresses

CAPELA, José – 2D, 3D and other D's /p. 11

DEHLHOLM, Kirsten – Architecture plays the main role in theatre / p. 25

RUFFORD, Juliet – Theatre and Architecture: A Place Between / p. 26

Papers

HANNAH, Dorita – Event-Space: absolute, abstract & abject models for performance / p. 43

FRANQUEIRA, Sara Cristina Serras – The contemporary stage as an inland architecture / p. 57

ZEKOVIC, Miljana – Liminal space in art: the (in)security of our own vision / p. 70

CARVALHO, Inês de & Deidre Denise MATTHEE – Other lives and times in the Palace of Memory: an
audio-walk carved through walls and shadows / p. 83

MYGDALI, Stella – Hold me gently: trust and intimacy in site-specific performative artworks by Lundahl
& Seitl / p. 99

CARNEIRO, Maria – A house as space and memory: a case-study of Teatro do Vestido’s performance
“Até Comprava o Teu Amor” / p. 112

DIEZ-PASTOR Iribas, Concepcion – Architecture: the quest for the control of light / p. 125

NIETO Sanchez, Maria – Canteras de luz. El legado de Josef Svoboda [Quarries of light. The legacy of
Josef Svoboda] / p. 142

O'HARE, Niall – Light in architectural space / p. 154

KYLIKA, Aliki– Dramatized urbanism; Performance Cities / p. 164

NOWAK, Lukasz – The city of Nowa Huta: theatricalization of space / p.179

PALINHOS, Jorge – Space and performance: researching place and gesture in real settings / p. 191

GONZALEZ CUBERO, Josefina – Photographs of the theatre that could not be. Maruja Mallo´s stage
designs / p. 203

SÁ, Luiz Henrique da Silva – Scenographic panoramic dispositif: visual-spatial immersion / p. 221

GONZÁLEZ REYES, Amaya – El papel de la arquitectura en las escenografías de Mala Voadora [The role
of architecture in scenography of Mala Voadora] / p. 233
CARNEIRO, Luís Soares – The TNDMII before and after the fire of 1964 / p. 244

MAO, Edgar Yuanbo – The Rose in 1592: architectural evolution of playhouses in late Sixteenth Century
London / p. 260

UMIT, Nazli – An imperial stage: performing arts at the Hippodrome of Constantinople / p. 261

CANNATÀ, Michele – Lo spazio scenico come laboratorio dello spazio architettonico contemporaneo [The
scenic space as a laboratory of the contemporary architectural space] / p. 272

SÁ, Daniela – Drama and Project: The Little Scientific Theatre of Aldo Rossi / p. 287

GUIMARÃES, José Luís – Experimental Architecture “in Drama” - “The creative laboratory” / p. 300

MITROVIC, Jelena – Porosity of space: accumulation and reflection of meanings introduced by event / p.310

ŽUGIĆ, Višnja – The concept of space performativity: critical analyses / p. 325

PERIĆ, Vladan – Dramaturgy of space: establishing ephemeral chronotope in Architecture / p. 337

MERINO, Roberto – Encenadores à procura de um espaço teatral [Directors looking for a theatrical
space] / p. 349

NETO, Edvard Passos de Santana – Compadre de Ogum: a theatre play based on Jorge Amado's novel
in dialogue with a historical building in the city of Salvador / p. 365

CSANADI, Judit – Dramatic architecture: places for drama / p. 384

ROSSINI, Elcio – Espaços transitórios [Transitional spaces] / p. 400

BARROS, Isabel – Corpo + Cidade [Body + City] / p. 412

OSTAJEWSKA, Marta – Performative street’s tales in the context of phenomenology of space (site-
specific dance and performance art) / p. 413

RIZZO, Laura Katz – The architecture of space as embodied in neoclassical dance choreography: the
work of George Balanchine captured through the camera lens of Paul Kolnik / p. 426

FIGUEIREDO, Rosa Branca – The place of drama in ritual African theatre / p. 441

GOUDOUNA, Sozita – Marina Abramovic's Seven Deaths: Antiquity as a performing space / p. 451

KAKALIS, Christos – Narrating the spatiality of silence: drawing from the silence of Samuel Beckett and
Andrei Tarkovsky / p. 466

BRAASCH, Cathy – Spaces for creative production: experimental theatre, adaptive re-use, and
institutional identity / p. 478

NADOLNY, Adam & Barbara SWIT-JANKOWSKA – Theatre space in Polish films of the 1960s. Records of
designing concepts and theoretical discourse / p. 491

LOURO, Gonçalo – Theatre spaces in Portugal: building, adapting, experimenting / p. 505

TREVISAN, Alexandra – A traveling theatre / p. 522

ORGANIZATION / p. 535