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.
Edited by:
Victoria Hunter,
Cathy Turner
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032254104
ISBN 10: 1032254106
Series: Routledge Companions
Pages: 500
Publication Date: 17 December 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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. Methods of Analysing Site Dance 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, Dee Heddon, Harry Wilson, Maggie O’Neill. 9. Siting Dance in the Protests of Political Subjectivities Ayrin Ersöz 10. Women Walking: Site-relational movements Dee Heddon, 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 Behrndt 34. “On the Rocks”: Two Encounters Leslie Satin 35. Dancing Outdoors: Site, Context, and Commons Rosemary Lee Index
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.
