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Site and Re-Site: Early Efforts to Serialize Site Dance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2017

Melanie Kloetzel
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Abstract

In this article, I investigate the historical precedents of site-adaptive dance. After walking through the mobility discourse as applied to site-specific art by such scholars as Miwon Kwon, Fiona Wilkie, and Victoria Hunter, I examine the mobile site works of North American choreographers Ann Carlson, PearsonWidrig DanceTheater, Eiko & Koma, and Stephan Koplowitz as exemplary of early attempts to take site dance on tour. Finally, I argue for the value of employing the lens of adaptation to analyze such works, both for the field of site performance and for the larger cross-disciplinary dialogues that could be activated.

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Adaptationdancehuman geographymobilityneoliberalismserializationsite-adaptivesite-specific performancetouring

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , April 2017 , pp. 6 - 23
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2017 

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