Site, Dance and Body

Victoria Hunter is a Practitioner-Researcher and Reader in Site Dance and Choreography at the University of Chichester, UK. Her work explores site dance, materiality and corporeal engagements with space, place and lived environments. She is co-author of (Re) Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Themes (2019) with Melanie Kloetzel and Karen Barbour, and editor of Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance (2015).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Material Structures: Bodies and Sites.- 3. Arterial Routes: Cityscapes and Urban Flows.- 4. Sites of Impermanence and Endurance: Weathering, Ageing and Decay.- 5. Home: Interiority and Intimacy.- 6. Subterranean Spaces: Embodiment, Excavation and Deep Time.- 7. Wide Open Spaces: Expansion, Projection and Slow Progress.-  8. Watery Bodies and Watery Sites: Immersion and Porosity.- 9. Conclusion: Enmeshments and Imaginaries.

“Hunter offers a series of interpretations for these interactions between bodies and environments from the perspective of the moving body. … Hunter’s admiration for new materialism is a defining characteristic of her book. … Hunter’s wide-ranging analysis marks a welcome contribution to a challenging set of conversations.” (Lucy Weir, Studies in Costume & Performance, Vol. 7 (1), 2022)