Design for BreakDown - the challenge of designing for the (inter)active Stage…

Design for BreakDown - the challenge of designing for the (inter)active Stage…

or designing a ”Action Space”Designing “inside - Out”

Designing a “Frame” for the acting”Designing “Outside - in”

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”Pierrot Lunaire” 1996, Chr. Marthaler/Anna Viebrock

The stage as an “Acting Machine”…

Popova/Meyerhold ”The Magnificent Cuckold” 1922

”This work was the culmination of an exchange between the arts, for in this production, the artist not only responded to the theatrical needs of an innovative director, but acually transformed the nature of acting and the very intent of the play

through devising such complex ”Acting Maschines”.

RoseLee Goldberg, ”Performance Art - from futurism to Present” 1988

”Pierrot Lunaire” 1996, Chr. Marthaler/Anna Viebrock

The labyrinth as a Dramaturgical Model…?

Journey to Abadyl

“The Anatomy of the Choice”

Playground or Character?

”Gezeiten” 2005, Sasha Waltz/Jonathan Bepler

”Big Brother” 2002, PRAMnet PAToolbox

The labyrinthine alleys of ...

The unstable ground of Traora

The blinded and unfriendly facades of ...

Journey to Abadyl

Action Space…

Oskar Schlemmer ”Figur Und Raumlineatur” 1924

A virtual space…?

The notorius jukebox sekt in ...

Journey to Abadyl

A physical environment staged with virtual fragments...

Basker Vision - a theatrical models for group dynamics and a tracking system for drama in mixed reality environment.

Spirits on Stage - a narrative city landscape with audience participation.

Heaven & Hell ‘Solo’ & ‘Group’

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

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Oskar Schlemmer ”Die Form” 1924/25

RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

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Oskar Schlemmer ”Die Form” 1924/25

RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

The Toolbox - ”Categorization”

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

The Toolbox - ”Transformation”

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

The Toolbox - ”The total Matrix”

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

The Toolbox - investigation of the object itself

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

The Toolbox - choreographing the object

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

The Toolbox - the body in dialogue with the object

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

The Toolbox - the process of ”designing” the object

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

The Toolbox - changing the expression by changing the material

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

The Toolbox - learning from the object

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

”The Dramaturgy of the Object” - Ellen Spens - Danish National School of Theatre - Copenhagen - Denmark 2006

The Chair - Investigating one object though the categories

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

The Toolbox - constructing lines of action with objects

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RespOnce Design For BreakDown- tools and methods for responsive stage design

RespOnce Workshops - Cantabile 2/ SOSA - Vordingborg - Denmark 2004-05

The Toolbox - composition with the object

RespOnce Design For BreakDown- how to develop a devising tool for interactive stage design.

Conclusion?