The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance

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.

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