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How does the moving, dancing body engage with the materials,
textures, atmospheres, and affects of the sites through which we
move and in which we live, work and play? How might embodied
movement practice explore some of these relations and bring us
closer to the complexities of sites and lived environments? This
book brings together perspectives from site dance, phenomenology,
and new materialism to explore and develop how 'site-based body
practice' can be employed to explore synergies between material
bodies and material sites. Employing practice-as-research
strategies, scores, tasks and exercises the book presents a number
of suggestions for engaging with sites through the moving body and
offers critical reflection on the potential enmeshments and
entanglements that emerge as a result. The theoretical discussions
and practical explorations presented will appeal to researchers,
movement practitioners, artists, academics and individuals
interested in exploring their lived environments through the moving
body and the entangled human-nonhuman relations that emerge as a
result.
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.
How does the moving, dancing body engage with the materials,
textures, atmospheres, and affects of the sites through which we
move and in which we live, work and play? How might embodied
movement practice explore some of these relations and bring us
closer to the complexities of sites and lived environments? This
book brings together perspectives from site dance, phenomenology,
and new materialism to explore and develop how 'site-based body
practice' can be employed to explore synergies between material
bodies and material sites. Employing practice-as-research
strategies, scores, tasks and exercises the book presents a number
of suggestions for engaging with sites through the moving body and
offers critical reflection on the potential enmeshments and
entanglements that emerge as a result. The theoretical discussions
and practical explorations presented will appeal to researchers,
movement practitioners, artists, academics and individuals
interested in exploring their lived environments through the moving
body and the entangled human-nonhuman relations that emerge as a
result.
Site-based dance performance and sited movement explorations
implicate dance makers, performers and audience members in a number
of dialogical processes between body, site and environment. This
book aims to articulate international approaches to the making,
performing and theorising of site-based dance. Drawing on
perspectives from three practitioner-academics based in three
distinct world regions - Europe, North America and Oceania - the
authors explore a range of practices that engage with
sociocultural, political, ecological and economic discourses, and
demonstrate how these discourses both frame and inform processes of
site dance making as well as shape the ways in which such
interventions are conceived and evaluated. Intended for artists,
scholars and students, (Re)Positioning Site Dance is an important
addition to the theoretical discourse on place and performance in
an era of global sociopolitical and ecological transformation.
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.
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