Site-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 theorising 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 sociocultural, 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 sociopolitical and ecological transformation.

About the Author

Karen 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.

Book Information
ISBN 9781783209989
Author Karen Barbour
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint Intellect Books
Publisher Intellect Books
Weight(grams) 735g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 19mm