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(Re)positioning site dance : local acts, global perspectives /

This co-authored book aims to articulate international approaches to making, performing and theorizing site-based dance. Intended for artists, scholars, and students, the approaches discussed are informed by interdisciplinary engagements with socio-cultural, political, economic and ecological perspe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Barbour, Karen Nicole (Author), Hunter, Victoria (Senior lecturer in dance) (Author), Kloetzel, Melanie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol : Intellect, 2019.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: (Re)positioning site dance: Local acts, global perspectives; Section One: Historical lineages and contemporary concerns: Tactics, encounters and contexts; Chapter 1: From recontextualization to protest: 50 years of site dance practice in North America; Chapter 2: Activism, land contestation and place responsiveness; Chapter 3: Sited English folk dance as a form of site dance: Heritage, tradition and resistance; Section Two: Practice into theory: Materials, dialogues and affect
  • Chapter 4: Dancing gardens: Phenomenology and affective practicesChapter 5: Material touchstones: Weaving histories through site-specific dance performance; Chapter 6: Lend me an ear: Dialogism and the vocalizing site; Section Three: Moving towards the global: Ethics, mobility and marginalization; Chapter 7: Performing parks and squares; Chapter 8: Site-specific dance and environmental ethics: Relational fields in the Anthropocene; Chapter 9: Dancing in foreign places: Practices of place and tropophilia; Conclusion; References; Index; Back Cover