Academic’s new book explores significance of site-dance performance

SITE-DANCE as a vital form of contemporary practice is the subject of a new book edited by a senior lecturer of Dance at the University of Chichester.

Dr Victoria Hunter, who began as a freelance contemporary choreographer and movement director, contributed to the title Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Choreography exploring practices which engage with sites and environments.

The book, available to purchase now, also examines dance through a combination of analytical essays and practitioner accounts of their working processes.

Dr Hunter said: “In offering the joint effort of theory and practice, the book provides 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.”

The edited volume also combines critical thinking with commentary and observation of the fields of dance studies, human geography, and spatial theory to present a range of practice-led examples.

Dr Hunter added: “This 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.

“It explores, reflects, disrupts, contests, and develops understandings and practices of inhabiting and engaging with a range of sites and environments.”

To find out more about Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Choreography click here.

Alternatively for about Dr Hunter and her research at the Dance department of the University of Chichester go to www.chi.ac.uk/dance.