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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 494 pages)
• Disciplina: 792.8/2; 792.82; 792.801
• Soggetto topico: Choreography; Dance - Stage-setting and scenery; Dance - Social aspects; Dance - Study and teaching
• Altri autori: HunterVictoria (Senior lecturer in dance)
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Moving sites
• ISBN: 1-317-53249-X; 0-415-71325-0; 1-315-72495-2; 1-317-53250-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910960481503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II