Site-Specific Dance: Revealing and Contesting the Ludic Qualities, Everyday Rhythms, and Embodied Habits of Place

Tim Edensor and Caitlan Bowdler

Environment and Planning A, 2015, vol. 47, issue 3, 709-726

Abstract: Focusing on three dance works and an autoethnographic account of a site-specific performance in Manchester, UK, this paper explores how contemporary site-specific dance can alter the meaning, practice, and feeling of urban spaces. Philippe Saire's Cartographies (2012) reveals the ludic and sensual potentialities of the city, Wayne Sables's Traffic (2004) foregrounds urban rhythms of place, and a piece by the Guerilla Dance Project (2010) highlights overlooked habitual practices in familiar space. To draw out these themes, we discuss a performance devised by Caitlan in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens.

Keywords: site-specific dance; rhythm; ludic; habitual; familiar (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1068/a140042p

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