Between Dance and Architecture
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32Z_OP_C1005
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Moving Sites Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415713252
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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https://www.routledge.com/Moving-Sites-Investigating-Site-Specific-Dance-Performance/Hunter/p/book/9780415713252
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This chapter presents aspects of a twelve-year action-based research collaboration between the author (an architecture academic), and a dance educator/artist. The research theoretically positions the relationship between architecture and dance, which are normally separated by distinct ontologies, as part of the same continuum.
The research is a development of Bernard Tschumi’s 1976 essay on architecture and transgression, which explores architecture’s position between space and event. The collaboration develops a new trans-ontology between architecture and dance, and shifts the space/time versus place/event dialectic to develop new approaches, and by making connections across and between domains and dissolving the rigidly drawn boundaries that delineate each. The research presents both a theoretical position and a practical interpretation by sharing an innovative trans-disciplinary workshop which was designed for both architecture and dance practitioners.
The collaboration evolved through a series of workshops which were systematically developed to take dance practice and choreography methodologies into the architecture design studio. In doing so, the processes of dance were used to create a transdisciplinary practice that is located somewhere between architecture and dance. Workshops for architecture students and practitioners, held annually from 2003 onwards, were underpinned by Stringer’s (1996) action research: using field notes, documentary photographs and videos, and participant feedback to structure the developing reflective praxis.
The research has international reach, and has led to interdisciplinary performative events at conferences including: 10th international Architecture and Humanities Research Association conference, Transgression 2013; Sensing the City, Coventry 2019; Between and Aparts, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, 2019). Reviewed in <Dance Journal Hong Kong> (June 10, 2019), the book is stocked by 196 libraries internationally and has fifty citations in a range of highly-respected international journals.
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