Dear List members I am hoping that some of you may be able to help me, and would greatly appreciate any pointers you can provide. I teach in the contemporary dance degree program at UNITEC Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. For a paper I teach each year in Dance Studies, I need to locate (for purchase) video of site specific performances, but I have experienced great difficulty in identifying sources of such videos/films. In part this is a cataloguing issue -- the category "site-specific performance" may not have been used by the indexers, or may not exist as a category in a given collection. And in part it's an issue of practice - dance video makers are more interested in a creating videodance than in documenting/creatively filming/collaborating on filming site-specific events (which are of course difficult to film.) So I wonder if you can help me? I need to draw a line between "environmental performance" [which is performance presented out-of -doors or in some non-conventional environment or other public place, but which stages the event in that environment without specifically engaging with that environment] and "site-specific performance" in which the intention of the performance is to transform the understanding of the site (and its history and/or everyday significance) with which the performance engages. To complicate matters, it isn't always obvious where the boundary falls -- eg Anna Halprin's dance rituals (for example) are more often environmental performances but are also at times site specific. Anyway, I would be very grateful for your assistance, or for pointers to other contacts of whom I can inquire. Thanks you for your time -Raewyn Whyte ====This message came from the NZ dance news mailing list===== ===to subscribe/unsubscribe reply to this message with instructions==== ====List maintainer is Raewyn Whyte - raewyn@url.co.nz=== ==="A dance is worth 10,000 words" - http://url.co.nz/arts/dance.html ===
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