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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 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. |
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7 Sharing occasions at a distance: the different dimensions of comobility8 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. |
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16 Dancing the beach: in between land, sea and sky17 '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. |
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21 From urban cities and the tropics to site-dance in the world heritage setting of Melaka: an Australian practitioner's journey22 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; Index. |
| 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. T̂he 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. |
| Local Note |
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Choreography.
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Dance -- Stage-setting and scenery.
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Dance -- Social aspects.
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Dance -- Study and teaching.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. |
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Choreography. |
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Dance -- Social aspects. |
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Dance -- Stage-setting and scenery. |
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Dance -- Study and teaching. |
| Added Author |
Hunter, Victoria (Senior lecturer in dance), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317532507 (electronic bk.) |
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1317532503 (electronic bk.) |
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9780415710176 |
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