Moving sites : investigating site-specific dance performance / edited by Victoria Hunter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunter, Victoria (Senior lecturer in dance)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Choreography.

Dance--Stage-setting and scenery.

Dance.

Dance--Social aspects.

Dance--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 494 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

PART I Approaching the site: experiencing space and place

1 Experiencing space: the implications for site-specific dance performance

2 Sited conversations

3 Between dance and architecture

4 Atmospheric choreographies and air-conditioned bodies

5 Embodying the site: the here and now in site-specific dance performance

PART II Experiencing site: locating the experience

6 Homemade circus: investigating embodiment in academic spaces

7 Sharing occasions at a distance: the different dimensions of comobility

8 Video space: a site for choreography

9 Placing the body in mixed reality

10 Spatial translation, embodiment and the site-specific event

PART III Engaging with the built environment and urban practice

11 City of lovers

12 Dancing the history of urban change in the Bay and beyond

13 Site-specific dance in a corporate landscape: space, place, and non-place

14 Stop. Look. Listen. What’s going on?

15 Witnessing dance in the streets: Go! Taste the City

PART IV Environmental and rural practice

16 Dancing the beach: in between land, sea and sky

17 ‘Moving beyond inscription to incorporation’: the four dynamics of ecological movement in site-specific performance

18 Strategies of interruption: slowing down and becoming sensate in site-responsive dance

19 Diving into the wild: ecologies of performance in Devon and Cornwall

20 Spectacle, world, environment, void: understanding nature through rural site-specific dance

Part V Sharing the site: community, impact and affect

21 From urban cities and the tropics to site-dance in the world heritage stetting of Melaka: an Australian practitioner’s journey

22 Dancing in place: site-specific work

23 Activating intersubjectivities in site-specific contemporary dance

24 Site of the Nama Stap Dance

25 Moving sites: transformation and re-location in site-specific dance performance.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-53249-X

0-415-71325-0

1-315-72495-2

1-317-53250-3

9781315724959

OCLC:

905853905