Hunter Site, Dance and Body

Movement, Materials and Corporeal Engagement
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-64800-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 279 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

How does the moving, dancing body engage with the materials, textures, atmospheres, and affects of the sites through which we move and in which we live, work and play? How might embodied movement practice explore some of these relations and bring us closer to the complexities of sites and lived environments?
This book brings together perspectives from site dance, phenomenology, and new materialism to explore and develop how ‘site-based body practice’ can be employed to explore synergies between material bodies and material sites. Employing practice-as-research strategies, scores, tasks and exercises the book presents a number of suggestions for engaging with sites through the moving body and offers critical reflection on the potential enmeshments and entanglements that emerge as a result. The theoretical discussions and practical explorations presented will appeal to researchers, movement practitioners, artists, academics and individuals interested in exploring their lived environments through the moving body and the entangled human-nonhuman relations that emerge as a result.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunter, Victoria

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction2 Material Structures: Bodies and Sites3 Arterial Routes: Cityscapes and Urban Flows4 Sites of Impermanence and Endurance: Weathering, Ageing and Decay5 Home: Interiority and Intimacy6 Subterranean Spaces: Embodiment, Excavation and Deep Time7 Wide Open Spaces: Expansion, Projection and Slow Progress8 Watery Bodies and Watery Sites: Immersion and Porosity9 Conclusion: Enmeshments and Imaginaries

Über Autor(innen)

Victoria Hunter is a Practitioner-Researcher and Reader in Site Dance and Choreography at the University of Chichester, UK. Her work explores site dance, materiality and corporeal engagements with space, place and lived environments. She is co-author of (Re) Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Themes (2019) with Melanie Kloetzel and Karen Barbour, and editor of Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance (2015).