The forthcoming book DanzaèArchitettura® by Silvia Cassetta represents a fascinating exploration of the relationship between dance and architecture, two apparently distinct disciplines, but which are integrated and placed in dialogue in the text. The project, born as a degree thesis and then developed into a book, explores how architecture can become a matrix of choreographic gestures and how dance can interpret and transform architectural space.
Silvia Cassetta, designer and architect with a deep connection with the world of dance, presents an innovative work that aspires to found a new discipline, the result of the encounter between her two passions. The book focuses on the idea that dance, not only as a movement of the body in space, but also as a reading of it, can be used to understand and reveal new spatial dynamics. Architecture, on the other hand, is not seen only as the construction of physical spaces, but as an art form that, in synergy with bodily movement, can become an instrument of emotional and poetic expression.
The introduction to the text poses a key question: can dance be considered an architecture in motion and, vice versa, can architecture generate choreographic movements? The author proposes an affirmative answer, demonstrating how the dancing body can give life to an active dialogue with the built space. Through a series of historical and artistic examples, Silvia Cassetta highlights the connections between the two disciplines and, with the help of theoretical and practical references, supports the possibility of their integration.
One of the central aspects of his research concerns the MAXXI museum in Rome, designed by architect Zaha Hadid, which becomes the perfect context for Cassetta’s choreographic experimentation. The museum, with its curves, diagonals and flowing surfaces, evokes movement and offers fertile ground for the act of dance. The choreographer uses the body as a tool for reading space, creating a continuous dialogue between movement and architecture. In this experimentation, light plays a fundamental role: an architectural laser is used as a choreographic tool, emphasizing spaces and surfaces and giving the body a new direction and depth.
Cassetta’s reflection is enriched by the analysis of artists and architects who, before her, explored the relationship between movement and space. Among these, the works of contemporary choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Sasha Waltz stand out, who have helped to untie dance from conventional theatrical spaces, bringing it into urban and architectural contexts.
The book is not only a theoretical exercise, but also an invitation to explore new ways of perceiving space and the body. In an era in which artistic disciplines tend to merge and dialogue with each other, DanzaèArchitettura® offers an innovative and bold contribution, proposing a trans-discipline that responds to the contemporary challenges of artistic creation.
Ultimately, this text, published by Liberedizioni, is proposed as a manifesto for a new form of art, capable of combining the solidity of architecture with the lightness and dynamism of dance, proposing a broader and more integrated vision of the sensory and aesthetic world.
INFO/PHOTO COURTESY: Silvia Cassetta
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