DRAWING DANCE

Research Project

A drawing exercise, using architectural techniques and tools to dissect a significant work of choreography — George Balanchine’s 1935 ballet Serenade. Drawing prompts: what shapes does ballet make when rendered in plan or in section? Can greater themes (and their variations) illuminate through graphic notation? How might a drawing communicate choreography? What is produced when we recompose the choreography’s graphics and give it to dancers to interpret?

Research Assistant: Massi Surratt