Moving Sites
explores site-specific dance perform via a mixture of analytical essays and practitioner debts in their operating tactics. In supplying this joint attempt of thought and perform, it goals to supply dance teachers, scholars and practitioners with a chain of discussions that shed gentle either on methods to creating this kind of dance perform, and comparing and reflecting on it.
The edited quantity combines serious pondering from a variety of views together with statement and statement from the fields of dance reviews, human geography and spatial concept to be able to current interdisciplinary discourse and quite a number severe and practice-led lenses by which this kind of paintings may be thought of and explored. In so doing, this publication addresses the subsequent questions:
· How do choreographers make site-specific dance performance?
· What happens while a relocating physique engages with web site, position and environment?
· How may well we interpret, examine and assessment this kind of dance perform via quite a number theoretical lenses?
· How can this sort of perform tell wider discussions of embodiment, website, house, position and environment?
This cutting edge and interesting ebook seeks to maneuver past description and dialogue of site-specific dance as a spectacle or novelty and considers site-dance as a legitimate and very important type of modern dance perform that explores, displays, disrupts, contests and develops understandings and practices of inhabiting and fascinating with more than a few websites and environments.
Dr Victoria Hunter is Senior Lecturer in Dance on the collage of Chichester.
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