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New PDF release: Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance

By Victoria Hunter


Moving Sites explores site-specific dance perform via a mixture of analytical essays and practitioner bills in their operating tactics. In supplying this joint attempt of idea and perform, it goals to supply dance lecturers, scholars and practitioners with a chain of discussions that shed mild either on ways to creating this sort of dance perform, and comparing and reflecting on it.


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The edited quantity combines severe pondering from a number of views together with observation and commentary from the fields of dance experiences, human geography and spatial thought in an effort to current interdisciplinary discourse and a variety of serious and practice-led lenses wherein this sort of paintings should be thought of and explored. In so doing, this booklet addresses?the following questions:


·???????? How do choreographers make site-specific dance performance?


·???????? What happens whilst a moving?body engages with website, position and environment?


·???????? How could we interpret, examine and review this sort of dance perform via a number of theoretical lenses?


·???????? How can this kind of perform tell wider discussions of embodiment, website, house, position and environment?


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This leading edge and intriguing booklet seeks to maneuver past description and dialogue of site-specific dance as a spectacle or novelty and considers site-dance as a legitimate and important type of modern dance perform that explores, displays, disrupts, contests and develops understandings and practices of inhabiting and fascinating with a variety of websites and environments.


Dr Victoria Hunter is Senior Lecturer in Dance on the collage of Chichester.

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