{"product_id":"moving-sites-victoria-hunter-9780415710176","title":"Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoving Sites\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow do choreographers make site-specific dance performance?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat occurs when a moving body engages with site, place and environment?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow might we interpret, analyse and evaluate this type of dance practice through a range of theoretical lenses?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow can this type of practice inform wider discussions of embodiment, site, space, place and environment?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Victoria Hunter is Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Chichester.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria Hunter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415710170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415710176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.30d","brand":"Victoria Hunter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064948601087,"sku":"9780415710176","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9cf06946-808a-49d0-9d7d-cab66b27e765.jpg?v=1768672118","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/moving-sites-victoria-hunter-9780415710176","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}