Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance
- Editor: Hunter, Victoria
Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance
- Editor: Hunter, Victoria
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Moving Sites explores site-specific dance practice through a combination of analytical essays and practitioner accounts of their working processes. In offering this joint effort of theory and practice, it aims to provide dance academics, students and practitioners with a series of discussions that shed light both on approaches to making this type of dance practice, and evaluating and reflecting on it.
The edited volume combines critical thinking from a range of perspectives including commentary and observation from the fields of dance studies, human geography and spatial theory in order to present interdisciplinary discourse and a range of critical and practice-led lenses through which this type of work can be considered and explored. In so doing, this book addresses the following questions:
- How do choreographers make site-specific dance performance?
- What occurs when a moving body engages with site, place and environment?
- How might we interpret, analyse and evaluate this type of dance practice through a range of theoretical lenses?
- How can this type of practice inform wider discussions of embodiment, site, space, place and environment?
This innovative and exciting book seeks to move beyond description and discussion of site-specific dance as a spectacle or novelty and considers site-dance as a valid and vital form of contemporary dance practice that explores, reflects, disrupts, contests and develops understandings and practices of inhabiting and engaging with a range of sites and environments.
Dr Victoria Hunter is Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Chichester.
Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 0. Introduction
- VICTORIA HUNTER
- SECTION 1 Approaching the Site
- Section introduction VICTORIA HUNTER
- 1. Experiencing Space: The Implications for Site-Specific Dance Performance VICTORIA HUNTER
- 2. Sited Conversations FIONA WILKIE
- 3. Between Dance and Architecture RACHEL SARA
- 4. Atmospheric choreographies and air-conditioned bodies DEREK MCCORMACK
- 5. Embodying The Site: The Here and Now In Site-Specific Dance Performance VICTORIA HUNTER
- SECTION 2 Experiencing Site: Locating the Experience
- Section introduction VICTORIA HUNTER
- 6. Homemade Circus: Investigating Embodiment in Academic Spaces CAMILLA DAMKJAER
- 7. Sharing Occasions at a Distance: The Different Dimensions of Comobility CHRIS SPEED AND JEN SOUTHERN
- 8. Video Space: A Site For Choreography DOUGLAS ROSENBERG
- 9. Placing the Body in Mixed Reality SITA POPAT
- 10. Spatial Translation, Embodiment and the Site-Specific Event VICTORIA HUNTER
- SECTION 3 Engaging with the Built Environment and Urban Practice
- Section introduction VICTORIA HUNTER
- 11. City of Lovers CAROL BROWN
- 12. Dancing the History of Urban Change in the Bay and Beyond CAROLINE WALTHALL
- 13. Site-Specific Dance in a Corporate Landscape: Space, Place, and Non-Place MELANIE KLOETZEL
- 14. Stop. Look. Listen. What's going on? KATE LAWRENCE
- 15. Witnessing Dance in the Streets: Go! Taste the City KATRINKA SOMDAHL-SANDS
- SECTION 4 Environmental and Rural Practice
- Section introduction VICTORIA HUNTER
- 16. Dancing the Beach: In-between Land, Sea and Sky VICTORIA HUNTER
- 17. 'Moving beyond inscription to incorporation': The four dynamics of ecological movement in site-specific performance SANDRA REEVE
- 18. Strategies of Interruption: Slowing Down and Becoming Sensate in Site Responsive Dance NATALIE GARRET-BROWN
- 19. Diving Into the Wild: Ecologies of Performance in Devon and Cornwall MALAIKA SARCO-THOMAS
- 20. Spectacle, World, Environment, Void: Understanding Nature through Rural Site-Specific Dance NIGEL STEWART
- SECTION 5 Sharing Site: Community, Impact and Affect
- Section introduction VICTORIA HUNTER
- 21. From urban cities and the tropics to site-dance in the world heritage setting of Melaka: an Australian practitioner's journey CHERYL STOCK
- 22. Dancing in Place: Site-Specific Work JOSIE METAL-CORBIN
- 23. Activating Intersubjectivities in Site-Specific Contemporary Dance APRIL NUNES-TUCKER
- 24. Site of the Nama Stap Dance E. JEAN JOHNSON-JONES
- 25. Moving Sites: Transformation and Re-location in Site-specific Dance Performance VICTORIA HUNTER
- Index
