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This interdisciplinary collection brings together practices and voices from a wide range of global contexts, demonstrating and challenging the breadth of site-specific discourse. It provides a rich palette of perspectives, approaches and ideas for students, academics, and researchers to draw from.
List of contents
List of IllustrationsContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Terminology, Thematic Structure, Lineages and Contemporary Concerns
Victoria Hunter and Cathy TurnerPART IApproaching Places: Locating Performance 1. Specific Places/Global Spaces:
Arrival - Neoliberal Placemaking in East London's Royal Docks
Katie Beswick2. Hemispheric Dialogues: Site Specificity and Indigenous perforMAGICAL ACTivations in
Pe ataju jumali/Hot AirLaura Levin and Juma Pariri 3. Field Works
Karen Barbour 4. Three-Dimensional Metaphor: After 'Site'
Phil Smith 5. Method Disorder: Three Questions Raised by Site Dance to Dance Aesthetic Studies
Julie Perrin 6. Digital
Off Sites: Screening Stages and Theatre's
AuraBertie Ferdman PART IIBodies: Politics, Activism, and Resistance 7. Anti-Colonial Approaches to Site-Based Dance Performance
Rainy Demerson 8. WalkCreate: Walking Together as Site-Specific Performance
Morag Rose, Clare Qualmann, Deirdre Heddon, Harry Wilson, and Maggie O'Neill9. Siting Dance in the Protests of Political Subjectivities
Ayrin Ersöz 10. Women Walking: Site Relational Movements
Deirdre Heddon and Cathy Turner 11. Ange Aoussou's
Un Pas Vers L'avant: Site-Adaptive Improvisation and Community Engagement in Urban Africa
Celia Weiss Bambara PART IIIHistories 12. Place, Event, Memory: Jhandapur and Jana Natya Manch
Aparna Mahiyaria 13. What Makes a Trauma Site-Specific?: The Performative Culture of Memorials
Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson 14. Expanding the Notion of Monument through Performance
Anna Birch 15. Jay Pather: The Politics of Site in South Africa
Ketu H. Katrak16. Braiding, A Fluid Dramaturgy
Carol Brown PART IVArchitectures and Landscapes 17. Choreography and Architecture: Compositions in This Place
Adesola Akinleye 18. In Exile: Staging Epic Journeys across Continents of Land and Water
Dorita Hannah 19. Activating 'Rasa' with Dance-Architecture
Shinjita Roy 20. 'Listening to the Land':
A Field of Wheat: Arts and Agriculture ProjectSusan Haedicke 21. Employing Metaphor in Site-Specific Vertical Dance Choreography
Kate LawrencePART VEcologies 22. Folding One Place Within Another: Re-thinking Site-Specificity in the Anthropocene via Simone Forti's
5 Dance Constructions and Some Other ThingsCarl Lavery and Simon Whitehead 23. Trees as Experts in Site-Specificity
Annette Arlander 24. Site Performance, Coloniality and the Climate Crisis
Melanie Kloetzel 25. Walking Out of Our Bodies and
Into the Mountain: Dancing, Mountaineering and Embodied Interconnections through Place-Relational Performance
Simone Kenyon 26. 'A Holding Space': Emergence and Entanglement in Tree Spaces
Victoria HunterPART VITechnologies: Media and Transmission 27. Touching Distant Time and Place: Place-Based Augmented Reality Storytelling
Misha Myers 28. The Connected Museum
Gabriella Giannacci and Steve Benford 29. Site-Specificity and Virtual Reality
Julie Holledge and Joanne Tompkins30. Wandering with a Camera: Site-Specific Scores for the Making of Somatic Landscape Screendance
Heike Salzer 31. Practices of Embodied Listening: Audio Choreographies and Event-Making
Ariadne Mikou PART VIIMethods and Structures 32. Dancing Restless Histories
Gretel Taylor 33. The Making of
BreatheSynne K. Behrndt 34. 'On the Rocks': Two Encounters
Leslie Satin35. Dancing Outdoors: Site, Context, and Commons
Rosemary LeeIndex
About the author
Victoria Hunter is a Professor in Site Dance at Bath Spa University, UK.
Cathy Turner is a Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter, UK.
Summary
This interdisciplinary collection brings together practices and voices from a wide range of global contexts, demonstrating and challenging the breadth of site-specific discourse. It provides a rich palette of perspectives, approaches and ideas for students, academics, and researchers to draw from.
