The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance

This collection comprises a comprehensive overview of key themes, arguments, and practices central to the study and understanding of site-specific performance. Its collected essays, case studies, and practitioner accounts represent a must-have resource that engages with established and emergent ideas, themes, and practices central to this performance sub-discipline. Acknowledging the interdisciplinary nature of this field emergent through the creation and presentation of performance in non-theatre spaces, the companion includes writing from scholars whose work intersects with ideas from a range of related fields including dance, theatre, dramaturgy, human geography, architecture, walking studies, and archaeology. Alongside theoretical discussions and case study examples, a section on methods and structures allows site-specific practitioners to illustrate a range of practical approaches, tasks, and modes of producing site-specific performance in a range of sites. This interdisciplinary survey brings together practices and voices from a wide range of global contexts, demonstrating and challenging the breadth of site-specific discourse. It provides a rich palette of perspectives, approaches, and ideas for students, academics, and researchers to draw from.

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