‘Moving Sites’: Transformation and Re-location in Site-specific Dance Performance
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movement material. Informed by Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological approach 18 prioritising the lived-body as the primary source of engaging with the world, these tasks were facilitated through a process of phenomenological reduction. Described by Mickunas and Stewart as ‘a narrowing of attention to what is essential in the problem while disregarding the superfluous and accidental’, this approach enabled a direct through-line of connectivity to develop between 19 18 Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception. (London: Routledge, 1962). 19 Quoted in Fraleigh, Dance and The Lived Body. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987) p.6.
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