Moving Sites

<p><em>Moving Sites</em> 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.</p><p>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 in order to present 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: </p><ul> <li>How do choreographers make site-specific dance performance?</li> <li>What occurs when a moving body engages with site place and environment?</li> <li>How might we interpret analyse and evaluate this type of dance practice through a range of theoretical lenses?</li> <li>How can this type of practice inform wider discussions of embodiment site space place and environment?</li> </ul><p>This innovative and exciting book seeks to move beyond description and discussion of site-specific dance as a spectacle or novelty and 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.</p><p>Dr Victoria Hunter is Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Chichester.</p>