This work draws from the modernist legacy of the Bauhaus, particularly Oskar Schlemmer’s exploration of the body as a geometric instrument within space and Willi Baumeister’s constructivist approach to form. Both artists understood the human figure not simply as a subject, but as a structural element capable of activating architecture.
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Following this lineage, I approach the moving body as a form of photographic construction — a living geometry that reveals spatial tension, rhythm, and proportion. Through photography, I aim to translate ephemeral gestures into composed visual structures, where movement becomes a way of drawing within space.
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Rather than documenting dance, my practice investigates how the body can temporarily build architecture: lines appear, planes intersect, balance emerges, and dissolves again. The camera becomes a tool for stabilizing these fleeting constructions, transforming motion into image
and space into composition.
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Having lived in Germany and shaped by a design education grounded in modernist principles, I am particularly attentive to order, reduction, and the expressive potential of form. This project extends my ongoing interest in geometry and the relationship between bodies and built environments, positioning dance as a living, temporal architecture. The work continues to evolve through ongoing explorations of movement, space, and photographic form.
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As an ongoing body of research, the current series establishes the conceptual framework, the project remains open — evolving through experimentation, collaboration, and a deeper exploration of the body as an architectural instrument within space.
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Special Thanks to:
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Dancers: Michael Bodel & Cara Lewis
The Hodgson Family Dance Studio at The Hopkins Arts Center - Dartmouth College
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R E G U L A T I N G L I N E S
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An inevitable element of Architecture.
The necessity for order. The regulating line is a guarantee against wilfulness. It brings satisfaction to the understanding.
The regulating line is a means to an end; it is not a recipe. Its choice and the modalities of expression given to it are an integral part of architectural creation.
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— Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture.
“Klee’s statement speaks to envisioning dance in terms of forms and geometries, for he includes no mentions of Palucca’s body, body parts, or personality; he decorporealized and depersonalized the dance, thereby also un-gendering it.
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— Elizabeth Otto, Paul Klee and the New Woman Dancer, in Bauhaus Bodies
Dancers: Michael Bodel & Cara Lewis - The Hodgson Family Dance Studio at The Hopkins Arts Center - Dartmouth College