The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-25410-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 526 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1030 g

Reihe: Routledge Companions

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunter, Victoria

Turner, Cathy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Ballett, Modern Dance
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theater: Technik, Bühnentechnik, Einrichtung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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



Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.