Hannah Hall
I have loved the arts since the age of five when I began taking dance lessons. I did not think much of it when I started drawing floor plans in the spare pages of my notebooks, but dance and architecture are quite similar in many respects.
The parallels that can be drawn between dance and architecture in spatial awareness, planning, and motion have drawn her to pursuing a career in architecture. Spatial awareness is necessary both for utilizing the space on the stage as well as for designing a project on an allotted amount of land. Just as a dancer learns the choreography for a new dance, architects render floor plans to shape the flow within a building. Dance is, of course, not just physical exercise; it is to be enjoyed by the audience. Architecture, in the same way, must be practical and functional; however, in the hands of a skilled craftsman, it can evoke a sense of wonder on a stage of its own.
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