Abstract:
In this age of intolerance and chaos, the sudden need for self-expression, awareness and sometimes
even distraction has increased. One way is to provide a platform for performing art which includes
dance, music, theatre and performance art where body is used as a medium for expression.
The design uses dance as a tool to design the form along with formal and informal spaces for
learning, performing and interacting.
Architecture and dance, though two diverse subject, are closely connected. They share a similar
language of shape and form. Body and space both are also key features of architecture and dance.
Dance uses a body to define and understand a space, whereas architecture uses a space to define
and enclose the body. Dance frames the architecture and architecture frames the dance. Likewise
architecture is similar to choreographing a dance. Instead of just choreographing the movement of
the body, you also choreograph the movement of the form of the building in space.
Experimentation with basic dance movement and light helped understand and break dance into it's
basic elements such as rhythm, movement, balance, imbalance, etc. Integrating them then led to the
form and design of the building.
