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Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance
No full textThis edited volume explores site-specific dance performance and engages with interdisciplinary perspectives that explore what this type of work might tell us regarding human processes of being-in-the-world
Moving Sites
Get PDFIn this introductory chapter to my edited volume 'Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance' I identify some theoretical frameworks through which site-dance might be explored and present a discussion of historical lineages that have influenced the evolution of the form
Performing Parks and Squares
No full textIn this chapter, I consider what spectacularized site dance work overlooks when placed in public parks and squares. I explore how such work might, unwittingly contribute to more coercive strategies that figuratively and practically place less palatable urban actualities such as homelessness and social exclusion at the peripheries of dominant urban (promotional and touristic for example) narratives . To this end, I explore the intrinsically performative nature of urban public spaces and their function as stages for ‘everyday’ performances invoked by design, function and regulatory condition
Sited English Folk dance as a form of site dance: Heritage, tradition and resistance
No full textThis chapter explores a conceptual re-positioning through which English folk dance practice is considered as an extended form of site-specific dance performance. In particular, I discuss three examples; the Padstow ‘Oss , the Abbotts Bromley Horn Dance and the Grenoside Sword Dance in relation to their historical origins and traditions, and their reliance upon site and community to perpetuate the work
Material Touchstones: Weaving histories through site-specific dance performance
No full textIn this chapter I explore how material histories, embodied memories and the materials of ‘home’ informed the development and production of my site-specific dance work The Abbots Dances, created and performed at the 400 year-old George Abbot Almshouse hospital in Guildford, Surrey, September 2014. Performed by five dancers and two Almshouse residents, the work explored individual place associations and memories, the site’s history, materials and architecture. It wove together historical site details and personal narratives, and celebrated the stories and associations of those who live there. In this chapter I explore how the performance work articulated embodied memories of home constructed over a life-course alongside present-day sentiments of feeling at home. These reflections are informed by an interdisciplinary theoretical framework drawn from; phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty 1962), archival theory (Millar 1991), and New Materialism (Bennett 2004, Barad 2003 and Kramer 2012)
(Re)Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Perspectives
No full textSite-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 theorizing of site-based dance. Drawing on perspectives from three practitioner-academics based in three distinct world regions--Europe, North America, and Oceania--the authors explore a range of practices that engage with socio-cultural, political, ecological, and economic discourses, and demonstrate how these discourses both frame and inform processes of site dance making as well as shape the ways in which such interventions are conceived and evaluated. Intended for artists, scholars, and students, (Re)Positioning Site Dance is an important addition to the theoretical discourse on place and performance in an era of global socio-political and ecological transformation
From urban cities and the tropics to site-dance in the world heritage setting of Melaka : An Australian practitioner’s journey
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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