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Record Nr.

UNINA9910632478403321

Autore

Snowber Celeste Nazeli

Titolo

Dance, Place, and Poetics : Site-specific Performance as a Portal to Knowing / / by Celeste Nazeli Snowber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031097164

9783031097157

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (130 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Movement across Education, the Arts and the Social Sciences, , 2946-5524

Disciplina

943.005

792.801

Soggetti

Art - Study and teaching

Site-specific theater

Dance

Poetry

Ecology

Creativity and Arts Education

Site-Specific Performance

Poetry and Poetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Coming to our Senses: The Body’s Capacity for Creation -- Chapter 2. Place, Ecology and the Poetic -- Chapter 3. Water, Tides and Heron Lessons -- Chapter 4. Lessons from a Botanical Garden – Fall and Winter -- Chapter 5. Lessons from a Botanical Garden – Spring and Summer -- Chapter 6. Dance in COVID times: Site-Specific Art in the In-between -- Chapter 7. The Body as Portal. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the relationship between the body, ecology, place, and site-specific performance. The book is situated within arts-based research, particularly within embodied inquiry and poetic inquiry. It explores a theoretical foundation for integration of these areas, primarily to share the lived experiences, poetry and dance which have come out of decades of sharing site-specific performances. Celeste



Nazeli Snowber is a dancer, poet, writer and award-winning educator. She is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada. .