(Re)Positioning Site Dance : Local Acts, Global Perspectives.

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 practices -- Chapter 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.

Site-based dance performance and sited movement explorations implicate dance makers, performers and audience members in a number of dialogical processes between body, site and environment. This book aims to articulate international approaches to the making, performing and theorising of site-based dance.

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