Mouvement vivant et architecture: la marche, les escaliers chez Émile Jaques-Dalcroze et Adolphe Appia


 At the turn of nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through eurhythmics Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, a new relationship between music movement was established, which closely involved dance architecture. Our emphasis, here, will be put on transformations related to space, with regard stage reform by Adolphe Appia, Dalcroze’s friend collaborator. It is Appia’s drawings, Rhythmic Spaces, made 1909 1911, that connection living architecture approached. In particular, one calls in question status straight lines, horizontal vertical, staircases, are emblematic. These contrasting curving serpentines lines mark influence dancing paintings from period, must understood respect Dalcrozian conception rhythmic feeling. Aliveness, for him, not separated measure - itself alive -, can acquired varied complex exercises marching within framework education. Through arises musical space rupture perspectival pictural as former doesn’t dissociate any more mobility immobility, aliveness inertia, grace gravity.