Dance, Place, and Poetics - Site-specific Performance as a Portal to Knowing

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. 

List of contents

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.  

About the author

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.  

Product details

• Authors: Celeste Nazeli Snowber
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2022
• EAN: 9783031097157
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3109715-7
• No. of pages: 115
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 11 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: XX, 115 p. 36 illus., 21 illus. in color.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Movement across Education, the Arts and the Social Sciences
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology