Moving Sites

Moving Sites explores site-specific dance practice through a combination of analytical essays and practitioner accounts of their working processes. In offering this joint effort of theory and practice, it aims to provide dance academics, students, and practitioners with a series of discussions that shed light both on approaches to making this type of dance practice, and evaluating and reflecting on it.

The edited volume combines critical thinking from a range of perspectives, including commentary and observation from the fields of dance studies, human geography, and spatial theory. It presents interdisciplinary discourse and a range of critical and practice-led lenses through which this type of work can be considered and explored. In so doing, this book addresses the following questions:

• How do choreographers make site-specific dance performance?
• What occurs when a moving body engages with site, place, and environment?
• How might we interpret, analyse, and evaluate this type of dance practice through a range of theoretical lenses?
• How can this type of practice inform wider discussions of embodiment, site, space, place, and environment?

This innovative and exciting book seeks to move beyond description and discussion of site-specific dance as a spectacle or novelty. It considers site-dance as a valid and vital form of contemporary dance practice that explores, reflects, disrupts, contests, and develops understandings and practices of inhabiting and engaging with a range of sites and environments.

Dr Victoria Hunter is Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Chichester.