Natalie Dubrovska designs a women-empowering yoga and barre studio in Kyiv
“Nothing was available due to the war,” explains the Ukrainian designer. Named STAN, the yoga and barre studio was completed using locally sourced materials.
‘If You Could Swallow The Sun’ choreography dances with design
For the ‘If You Could Swallow The Sun’ dance performance, choreographer Omar Román De Jesús devised a flexible scenography made of lightweight paper accordion walls that dancers could play with on stage.
Dance House Helsinki by JKMM is designed to feel incomplete until it is filled with dance
JKMM and ILO architects completed the Dance House Helsinki in a former cable factory in the Finnish capital. “Dancers and performers will complete the architecture.”
Horah lighting design installation by Raw Edges at Spazio Krizia is inspired by Jewish folk dance
A traditonal Jewish folk dance and the fascination for synchronized movement inspired Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay of Raw Edges to design a poetic installation in collaboration with Wonderglass.
Disco Gufram: club culture meets radical design. Are you ready to dance off?
Impetuous sofas, flamboyant carpets and afterparty melted disco-balls. Everybody rocks with the the Disco Gufram collection!
Giles Walker’s pole dancing robots wow and raise eye brows in Las Vegas’ strip club
Pole dancing robots at Las Vegas’ Sapphire gentlemen club shake their silicon booty to “attract women” and make reflect on digital voyeurism during CES 2018.
Chicago Biennial 2017 showcases architecture-driven performing art projects
A dancing quartet in air-filtering costumes and a choreography exploring the body’s relationship to buildings and spaces in a Mies van der Rohe’s masterpiece. At Chicago 2017 architecture-driven performing arts projects bring to life iconic masterpieces with music, theatre and dance.
Parisian dance school
Lankry Architectes nests Parisian dance school in growing streetscape and envelopes it with metal triangular facets.
Dance Construction: Amanda Keeley architects choreography
With the Dance Construction installation, artist Amanda Season Keeley explores the links between architecture and dance.
Disco Disco by Haberdashery floods 21st century dance-floors with interactive lights
With Disco Disco, Haberdashery developed a 21st century disco ball that can interact with music thanks to circular grids of pixelated LED lights.
Chemical Brothers Go Brutalist!
French filmaker Michel Gondry shoot Chemical Brothers’ new music video in Paris brutalist architecture, just a stone’s throw away from the Eiffel tower… and a Statue of Liberty.
Sci-Fi Twerking?
Twerking meet design. From TW3RKBOT 1.0 of Basement Jaxx’s video to the “Real Booty Music” project. Artists, designers and engineers playfully go beyond Miley Cyrus hype.
Design Ballet Shoes
Lesia Trubat worked on hi-tech pointé shoes that allow ballet dancers to recreate their movements in digital pictures using a mobile application.