Dance, Place, and Poetics: Site-specific Performance as a Portal to Knowing

ISBN-13: 9783031097157 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 115 str.

Celeste Nazeli Snowber

Opis

This book explores the relationship between the body, ecology, place, and site-specific performance. The book is situated within arts-based research, particularly within embodied inquiry and poetic inquiry. It explores a theoretical foundation for integration of these areas, primarily to share the lived experiences, poetry and dance which have come out of decades of sharing site-specific performances. 

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Coming to our Senses: The Body’s Capacity for Creation

Chapter 2. Place, Ecology and the Poetic

Chapter 3. Water, Tides and Heron Lessons

Chapter 4. Lessons from a Botanical Garden – Fall and Winter

Chapter 5. Lessons from a Botanical Garden – Spring and Summer

Chapter 6. Dance in COVID times: Site-Specific Art in the In-between

Chapter 7. The Body as Portal

O autorze

Celeste Nazeli Snowber is a dancer, poet, writer and award-winning educator. She is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada.  

Blurb

This book explores the relationship between the body, ecology, place, and site-specific performance. The book is situated within arts-based research, particularly within embodied inquiry and poetic inquiry. It explores a theoretical foundation for integration of these areas, primarily to share the lived experiences, poetry and dance which have come out of decades of sharing site-specific performances. 

Celeste Nazeli Snowber is a dancer, poet, writer and award-winning educator. She is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada.