Embodying the Site: the Here and Now in Site-Specific Dance Performance
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Hunter, V (2005) Embodying the Site: the Here and Now in Site-Specific Dance Performance NTQ: New Theatre Quarterly, 21 (4). 367 - 381. ISSN 0266-464X
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x05000230
Abstract
In this article, Victoria Hunter explores the concept of the ‘here and now’ in the creation of site-specific dance performance, in response to Doreen Massey’s questioning of the fixity of the concept of the ‘here and now’ during the recent RESCEN seminar on ‘Making Space’, in which she challenged the concept of a singular fixed ‘present’, suggesting instead that we exist in a constant production of ‘here and nows’ akin to ‘being in the moment’. Here the concept is applied to an analysis of the author’s recent performance work created as part of a PhD investigation into the relationship between the site and the creative process in site-specific dance performance. In this context the notion of the ‘here and now’ is discussed in relation to the concept of dance embodiment informed by the site and the genius loci, or ‘spirit of place’. Victoria Hunter is a Lecturer in Dance at the University of Leeds, who is currently researching a PhD in site-specific dance performance.
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of a paper published as Hunter, V. (2005). Embodying the Site: the Here and Now in Site-Specific Dance Performance. NTQ: New theatre Quarterly, 21(4): 367-381. Available online at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=345110 |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences > School of Arts > Dance, Film and Theatre |
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| ID Code: | 713934 |
| Deposited By: | Symplectic Elements |
| Deposited On: | 03 Aug 2012 15:13 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2013 15:17 |
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