(Re)Positioning Site Dance
(Re)Positioning Site Dance (Book)
Local Acts, Global Perspectives
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.
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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.
Karen Barbour is an Associate Professor in the School of Arts, Te Kura Kete Aronui, at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Victoria Hunter is a practitioner-researcher and Reader in Site Dance and Choreography at the University of Chichester, UK.
Melanie Kloetzel is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Calgary, Canada, and the Artistic Director of the dance theatre company kloetzel&co.
List of Illustrations
Introduction: (Re)positioning site dance: Local acts, global perspectives
Karen Barbour, Victoria Hunter, Melanie Kloetzel
Section One: Historical lineages and contemporary concerns: Tactics, encounters and contexts
Chapter 1: From recontextualisation to protest: 50 years of site dance practice in North America
Melanie Kloetzel
Chapter 2: Activism, land contestation and place responsiveness
Karen Barbour
Chapter 3: Sited English folk dance as a form of site dance: Heritage, tradition and resistance
Victoria Hunter
Section Two: Practice into theory: Materials, dialogues and affect
Chapter 4: Dancing gardens, Phenomenology and affective practices
Karen Barbour
Chapter 5: Material touchstones: Weaving histories through site-specific dance performance
Victoria Hunter
Chapter 6: Lend me an ear: Dialogism and the vocalising site
Melanie Kloetzel
Section Three: Moving towards the global: Ethics, morality and marginalisation
Chapter 7: Performing parks and squares
Victoria Hunter
Chapter 8: Site-specific dance and environmental ethics: Relational fields in the Anthropocene
Melanie Kloetzel
Chapter 9: Dancing in Foreign places: Practices of place and tropophilia
Karen Barbour
Conclusion
References
Index
