Migrating Spaces - Arts & Music Festival Balzan

Art-in-Architecture | Balzan Local Council | Dance Project Studios - Exhibition event on Friday 22 Sept 2017 at 20:00 - - with performances at 20:30, 21:30 and 22:30 - Part of Arts & Music Festival - Gnien Stellini Balzan piazza garden - with live entertainment on the main stage & food refreshments

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MIGRATING SPACES is an interdisciplinary exhibition production exploring the “choreography of space” fusing art, architecture, and dance. Ideas interrogate the notion of kinespheres inspired by choreographer Rudolf Laban who drew forms based on the body’s pivotal movement using the solar plexus as axis of the body. This works well with architecture and lends to imaginative geometry emerging from breaking up an icosahedron into polyhedrons, exploring pivotal movement for interaction and flowing elements from rigid to fluid. The art forms produced focus on interpreting movement and flows using space and migration as a multi-layered metaphor connecting choreographed performance, bringing dancers to interact with the sculptures, merging different dynamics of form. Spaceframes, sound, movement and light form the fabric of a conceptual narrative navigating the human voyage from birth to struggle, port and freedom. Migrating Spaces is planned as a roaming production and is directed by artist Ruth Bianco in collaboration with architect Daniel Muscat together with choreographer Kristina Ann Schranz of Dance Project Studios. Thirty-three BSc graduate students of architecture and urban design at the University of Malta have produced spatial assemblages for outdoor installation, integrating a joint piece by Ruth Bianco and Daniel Muscat. Sited in Gnien Stellini, Balzan’s piazza garden, it will form an integral part of this enchanting town’s Arts and Music Festival with three dance interventions through the evening. Following the event, the artworks will remain on display till the end of October, 2017. This exhibition production is this year’s edition of Art-in-Architecture, an art-based research and exhibition framework exploring the creative interface between art and architecture. It has been realised at the kind invitation of Dr Ian Spiteri, Mayor of Balzan Local Council and Daniel Muscat, Council Member for Youth and Culture.

Special thanks go to our generous sponsors: Pillow Spaceframe Ltd, Dance Project Studios, Valletta'18 Foundation, Malta Tourism Authority, University of Malta. Ruth Bianco - artist Art-in-Architecture - Project Director Faculty for the Built Environment | UoM Daniel Muscat - architect Balzan Local Council representative member for Youth & Culture Kristina Ann Schranz - choreographer Art Director - Dance Project Studios | Pembroke 33 Architecture & Urban Design graduate students BSc Built Environment Studies | University of Malta

Participants: Jessica Galea Paul Aquilina Godwin Cassar Katrina Galea John Manduca Nadine Muscat Fabio Scicluna Jonathan Schembri Neil Markham Rachel Ebejer Stephanie Mamo Vincienne Bezzina Marya Falzon Lara Lia Andrew Grech Greta Delicata Manuela Mercieca Andrew Vella Elaine Bonnici Luke Azzopardi Julian Gatt Cheryl Deguara Becky Delicata Michael Stivala Nick Gt Etienne Spiteri Marilyn Camenzuli Dale Vella Christian Grech Joseph Cauchi Leon Gauci Christine Bonett Clayton Seychell