Full Description
This collection comprises a comprehensive overview of key themes, arguments, and practices central to the study and understanding of site-specific performance.
Its collected essays, case studies, and practitioner accounts represent a must-have resource that engages with established and emergent ideas, themes, and practices central to this performance sub-discipline. Acknowledging the interdisciplinary nature of this field emergent through the creation and presentation of performance in non-theatre spaces, the companion includes writing from scholars whose work intersects with ideas from a range of related fields including dance, theatre, dramaturgy, human geography, architecture, walking studies, and archaeology. Alongside theoretical discussions and case study examples, a section on methods and structures allows site-specific practitioners to illustrate a range of practical approaches, tasks, and modes of producing site-specific performance in a range of sites.
This interdisciplinary survey 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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Terminology, Thematic Structure, Lineages and Contemporary Concerns
Victoria Hunter and Cathy Turner
PART I
Approaching Places: Locating Performance
1. Specific Places/Global Spaces: Arrival - Neoliberal Placemaking in East London's Royal Docks
Katie Beswick
2. Hemispheric Dialogues: Site Specificity and Indigenous perforMAGICAL ACTivations in Pe ataju jumali/Hot Air
Laura 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 Aura
Bertie Ferdman
PART II
Bodies: 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'Neill
9. 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 III
Histories
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. Katrak
16. Braiding, A Fluid Dramaturgy
Carol Brown
PART IV
Architectures 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 Project
Susan Haedicke
21. Employing Metaphor in Site-Specific Vertical Dance Choreography
Kate Lawrence
PART V
Ecologies
22. Folding One Place Within Another: Re-thinking Site-Specificity in the Anthropocene via Simone Forti's 5 Dance Constructions and Some Other Things
Carl 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 Hunter
PART VI
Technologies: 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 Tompkins
30. 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 VII
Methods and Structures
32. Dancing Restless Histories
Gretel Taylor
33. The Making of Breathe
Synne K. Behrndt
34. 'On the Rocks': Two Encounters
Leslie Satin
35. Dancing Outdoors: Site, Context, and Commons
Rosemary Lee
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