Projections

One day I asked Pere why, when I see a space that moves me, I want to dance, to discover the beauty of the place – even if only through the shy gesture that characterises the first few times. I told him: ‘Your architecture is beautiful and I need to get close to its interior. As with music, I want to reveal through dance what I interpret of it, of you and your poetic geography’. He was enthusiastic about the idea. So I chose three spaces and he gave me two more. ‘For you, they should all be outdoors’, he told me. Each of these outdoor spaces has become a chapter in the book.

To convey the coexistence of dance and architecture, we asked Eric de Gispert and Miquel Ardèvol to film our dialogue, and so Correspondences. Dance and architecture, a poetic documentary in which I dance in each of the spaces, without prior indications (in situ) and then reproduce in a space without limits (black box) what has remained in my memory. The dance allowed Pere to reveal completely new secrets and sensations of his own architecture, and me to explore the subtle line between space and time: there is a time to inhabit a place and a time to keep it alive.

Dialogue had always been our most immediate form of relationship (he, in Catalan; I, in Italian), and we also decided to maintain it through images. Architecture, dance, image, word… to each gesture corresponds a thought; in each message, a life, a new organism. Dance and architecture were confused in this dialogue, we entered into each other’s most intimate black box. This dialogue is now a book and the stills accompany it like fragments of a diary: a continuous dialogue between art and life, between intentions and revelations.