Performance spaces in Cagliari
House of the travelling dancer was a scenography design developed in collaboration with Carovana SMI, a dance theatre company from Cagliari, for the youth festival Festa delle Creatività Giovanili. The project seeks to appropriate sites of potential within the city for performance, using architectural themes ‘floor’, scenography’, and ‘found space’ to domesticate previously underutilised sites. Using these elements the city is conceptualised as a series of domestic rooms or ‘domus’ with spatial characteristics: together/apart, covered/open, new/reused.
By identifying spaces of performative potential in the historic city, focus could turn to the less picturesque modernist ‘new centre’, where the current house of Carovana is located. The project culminates in the appropriation of semi private/vehicular space for communal use. By connecting the tram station and an adjoining parking yard, I created a spatially complex series of rooms for the dance company within the city block which would contain studios, subsidiary services, an exhibition space and a new station bar.
Collaborator/ client: Carovana SMI
Location: Cagliari, Sardinia
Year: 2019
By identifying spaces of performative potential in the historic city, focus could turn to the less picturesque modernist ‘new centre’, where the current house of Carovana is located. The project culminates in the appropriation of semi private/vehicular space for communal use. By connecting the tram station and an adjoining parking yard, I created a spatially complex series of rooms for the dance company within the city block which would contain studios, subsidiary services, an exhibition space and a new station bar.
Collaborator/ client: Carovana SMI
Location: Cagliari, Sardinia
Year: 2019