A Dance Architecture Event for The Isadora and Raymond Duncan Centre for Dance Research Kopanos, Athens, Greece, 7-8 October 2005 Inspired by the unique building at Kopanos designed by Isadora and Raymond Duncan as a utopic place for dancing, Her Topia was a specially commissioned work for the Centre. Isadora Duncan created the distinction of dance as an art form for the 20th century and asserted the freedom of a woman dancing. What does it mean to be a woman dancing in the 21st century? Choreographer, Carol Brown and Designer, Dorita Hannah, explored concepts of freedom and fashion as seventeen women performers go liberty hunting. Weaving their audience through the inside and outside of this unique building the performers created a journey through ancient and contemporary images. Dancing their body stories into the stones of this historic place with precise abandonment, and projecting these dances out into the cityscape of Athens through multiple reflections, using light, video and mirrors, the performers created a heterotopia, a place of other spaces. Her Topia brought together an international team of outstanding collaborators and was made possible by a grant from the British Council.

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