Between the material accumulation of intersecting unfinished urban visions, strange, inactive spaces emerge within condensed nodes of homogeneous activity in Tallinn's city centre. This thesis sits in this creative interval, recognizing such a gap as a potential site of rhythmic disruption and public engagement rather than one requiring sanitization and assimilation into the "smoothed" over urban whole. The choreography begins with and through the body, adopting a phenomenological approach in the reimagination of the gap as a site of social encounter. In reaction to “erasure” by means of demolition and concealment, the thesis explores modes of “revealing” through sensorial choreography to engender new forms of public reappropriation with those inherited structures of Tallinn’s Soviet past.
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