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OverviewSite-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 theorizing 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 socio-cultural, 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 socio-political and ecological transformation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Karen Barbour (The University of Waikato) , Victoria Hunter (University of Chichester, UK) , Melanie Kloetzel (University of Calgary)Publisher: Intellect Books Imprint: Intellect Books Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.735kg ISBN: 9781783209989ISBN 10: 1783209984 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 15 July 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviews[Barbour, Hunter, and Kloetzel] have pooled their estimable talents as writers and their vast knowledge of site dance into this valuable examination of, to paraphrase the subtitle, local acts reflecting global perspectives in dance. The authors bear witness to performers who emphasize complex interactions of citizens, dancer, and place. Viewing their subject through the prism of site dance techniques in three regions (Europe, North America, and the Oceania-Pacific), the authors examine cultural, political, ecological, and economic issues faced by citizens of those areas. The useful introduction will provide clarity even for those with little familiarity with site dance and its issues. The contents are divided into three sections-- Historical Lineages and Contemporary Concerns, Practice into Theory, and Moving towards the Global --each of which comprises three chapters, one by each author. The text is well written and well researched, and the authors include evocative images that inspire deeper appreciation of the form. Readers interested in dance's engagement in community will find many rewards in this volume. . . . Recommended. -- CHOICE Rather than presenting an overview of the field, [the editors] focus on themes including localized activist and resistant practices, the affective potential of dance as part of cultural shaping, and the relationship of site dance to wider ecological imperatives. Within this framework, socio-cultural politics play a large part in the overall discourse, and Barbour, Hunter, and Kloetzel foreground their position as part of the discussion. The most substantial content within each chapter focuses on each author's own extensive practice research. This provides a level of detailed discussion that is both critically situated and highly engaging. The book aims to re-position the field toward a consideration of the 'implications' of site dance--ethically, politically, and ecologically. . . . Each chapter of the book contains one or more 'excursions', which are instructions for the reader to explore practical site-based activity aligned to the themes and issues discussed. These excursions are enticingly written with the same critical awareness offered throughout the book. They would likely be useful to academics and students of dance and performance as a way of deepening an individual's or a group's understanding of the intersection between the personal, place, and broader social politics. --New Theatre Quarterly [Barbour, Hunter, and Kloetzel] have pooled their estimable talents as writers and their vast knowledge of site dance into this valuable examination of, to paraphrase the subtitle, local acts reflecting global perspectives in dance. The authors bear witness to performers who emphasize complex interactions of citizens, dancer, and place. Viewing their subject through the prism of site dance techniques in three regions (Europe, North America, and the Oceania-Pacific), the authors examine cultural, political, ecological, and economic issues faced by citizens of those areas. The useful introduction will provide clarity even for those with little familiarity with site dance and its issues. The contents are divided into three sections-- Historical Lineages and Contemporary Concerns, Practice into Theory, and Moving towards the Global --each of which comprises three chapters, one by each author. The text is well written and well researched, and the authors include evocative images that inspire deeper appreciation of the form. Readers interested in dance's engagement in community will find many rewards in this volume. . . . Recommended. -- CHOICE [Barbour, Hunter, and Kloetzel] have pooled their estimable talents as writers and their vast knowledge of site dance into this valuable examination of, to paraphrase the subtitle, local acts reflecting global perspectives in dance. The authors bear witness to performers who emphasize complex interactions of citizens, dancer, and place. Viewing their subject through the prism of site dance techniques in three regions (Europe, North America, and the Oceania-Pacific), the authors examine cultural, political, ecological, and economic issues faced by citizens of those areas. The useful introduction will provide clarity even for those with little familiarity with site dance and its issues. The contents are divided into three sections-- Historical Lineages and Contemporary Concerns, Practice into Theory, and Moving towards the Global --each of which comprises three chapters, one by each author. The text is well written and well researched, and the authors include evocative images that inspire deeper appreciation of the form. Readers interested in dance's engagement in community will find many rewards in this volume. . . . Recommended. --CHOICE Author InformationKaren 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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