Site Dance

by Kloetzel, Melanie

• ISBN13: 9780813034003
• ISBN10: 0813034000
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-29
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

Explore dance outside the theater with the world's most innovative choreographers "Kloetzel and Pavlik have created a valuable resource, documenting a wide range of site-specific dance events through a combination of interviews, practitioners' accounts, and stunning images. This volume raises useful questions about the politics of art's interventions into the public realm and gives insight into the pragmatic challenges of making site dance."-Fiona Wilkie, Roehampton University In recent years, site-specific dance has grown in popularity. In the wake of groundbreaking work by choreographers who left traditional performance spaces for other venues, more and more performances are cropping up on skyscrapers, in alleyways, on trains, on the decks of aircraft carriers, and in a myriad of other unexpected locations worldwide. InSite Dance,the first anthology to examine site-specific dance, editors Melanie Kloetzel and Carolyn Pavlik explore the work that choreographers create for nontraditional performance spaces and the thinking behind their creative choices. Combining interviews with and essays by some of the most prominent and influential practitioners of site dance, they look at the challenges and rewards of embracing alternative spaces. The close examinations of the work of artists like Meredith Monk, Joanna Haigood, Stephan Koplowitz, Heidi Duckler, Ann Carlson, and Eiko Otake provide important insights into why choreographers leave the theatre to embrace the challenges of unconventional venues. Site Dancealso includes more than 80 photographs of site-specific performances, revealing how the arts, and movement in particular, can become part of and speak to our everyday lives. Celebrating the often unexpected beauty and juxtapositions created by site dance, the book is essential reading for anyone curious about the way that these choreographers are changing our experience of the world one step at a time.

Author Biography

Melanie Kloetzel is associate professor of dance at the University of Calgary. Carolyn Pavlik is assistant professor of dance at Western Michigan University. Both have performed, choreographed, and filmed site dances throughout North America.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Excavating Place: Memory and Spectacle	p. 25
Meredith Monk: An Interview	p. 33
Meredith Monk as Site Pioneer, 1969-71	p. 40
Joanna Haigood: An Interview	p. 52
Looking for the Invisible	p. 60
Stephan Koplowitz: An Interview	p. 64
Still Learning, Doing, and Relearning: Thoughts on Making and Defining Site-Specific Performance	p. 73
Heidi Duckler: An Interview	p. 84
Rabbi Pinchas as a Mexican Wrestler: Adventures in Dance	p. 93
Ann Carlson: An Interview	p. 104
Thumbprint by Ann Carlson	p. 112
Environmental Dialogues: Sensing Site	p. 119
Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad: An Interview	p. 125
Between Landscape, Self, and Other	p. 136
Leah Stein: An Interview	p. 142
Of Grass and Gravel	p. 150
Marylee Hardenbergh: An Interview	p. 158
One River Mississippi	p. 165
Revering Beauty: The Essence of Place	p. 173
Eiko Otake: An Interview	p. 179
Feeling Wind, Feeling Gaze	p. 188
Sally Jacques: An Interview	p. 199
The Making of Requiem: A Site-Specific Dance Opera	p. 206
Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig: An Interview	p. 217
The Honeymoon Is Over	p. 228
Civic Interventions: Accessing Community	p. 233
Jo Kreiter: An Interview	p. 239
Making Sparrows End	p. 246
Tamar Rogoff: An Interview	p. 253
Carriers of Consciousness: The Role of the Audience in The Ivye Project	p. 260
Martha Bowers: An Interview	p. 168
Choreography for Uncontrollable Contexts	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 291
Index	p. 309
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