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Dance Floor

Designed by Jean Verville Dance Floor is an elegant installation in Montreal, Canada, offering a lively landscape animated by an exuberant trompe-l’oeil.

Architect Jean Verville wins coveted Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ invited competition for the development of Museum Avenue. During summer 2016, his elegant installation Dance Floor offers a lively landscape animated by an exuberant trompe-l’oeil.

With Verville’s proposal the participants experiment movement, both free and structured by the course, to surrender to the pleasure of an impulsive action or casual wandering. Welcoming varied and unforgettable performances, Dance Floor shines a new dynamism to the museum.

With paving made of more than 5,000 footprints, the installation composed a stunning mosaic reminiscent of hammered gold, nod to the theme of the museum’s exhibition Pompeii. The gesture, of an equally unexpected as sensational simplicity, traces some chaos proper to crowd and invite passersby to improvise steps on this huge dancing floor.

Shaping a new urban intersection, architect Jean Verville transforms the pedestrian street into a giant interactive activity enlivening downtown Montreal with formidable improvised dances, while encouraging the visitor to build its customized tour within the works of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Sculpture Garden.

Dance Floor, Montreal, Canada
Architects: Jean Verville
Typology: Urban installation
Client: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Area: 280 sqm
Completion: 2016

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Dance Floor

Designed by Jean Verville Dance Floor is an elegant installation in Montreal, Canada, offering a lively landscape animated by an exuberant trompe-l’oeil.

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