(Re)Positioning Site Dance

Karen Barbour is an associate professor in dance in the School of Arts at The University of Waikato in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her teaching, performance and research focuses on embodied ways of knowing particularly feminist choreographic practices in dance, site-specific, digital dance and pedagogical movement contexts. Her book publications include Dancing Across the Page: Narrative and Embodied Ways of Knowing (Barbour 2011), (Re)Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Perspectives (Barbour et al. 2019) and Ethnographic Worldviews: Transformations and Social Justice (Rinehart et al. 2014). Karen is editor of the journal Dance Research Aotearoa, presents regularly at international conferences and has published her writing in a range of books and journals.

Victoria Hunter is a practitioner-researcher and Reader in site dance and choreography at the University of Chichester, UK. Her practice-based research explores site-specific dance performance and the body-self’s relationship with space and place encountered through corporeal, material, spatial and kinetic engagement with lived environments. Her writing on site dance has been published in Literary Geographies, New Theatre Quarterly, Performance Research, and Contemporary Theatre Review. Her edited volume Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance was published by Routledge in 2015 and she is co-author of (Re) Positioning Site-Dance (Intellect 2019) with Melanie Kloetzel (Canada) and Karen Barbour (New Zealand). Her forthcoming monograph publication, Site, Dance and Body: Movement, Materials and Corporeal Engagement, explores human-environment synergies through material intra-actions and is due for publication with Palgrave in 2020.

Melanie Kloetzel is the artistic director of kloetzel&co, a dance theatre company founded in New York City and now based in Canada. Committed to research that links performance, place, text and characterization, the company’s work has appeared in theatre venues, film festivals and alternative spaces across three continents. Kloetzel’s publication credits include her anthology with Carolyn Pavlik, Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces, the co-written (Re)Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Perspectives and articles in Dance Research Journal, New Theatre Quarterly, Dance Research and the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, among others. She is an associate professor of dance at the University of Calgary.