Body Time Space and Place (DNCE90013)

This subject addresses the theory and practice of dance in situ. Practices of ‘listening to Country’, dancing-place and ecological dramaturgy are central to the subject and are introduced through site-specific enquiries.

Body trainings that cultivate attunement to Country, earth, air and environment are taught within a residential context. Intercultural understandings in relation to Indigenous, immigrant and settler colonial experiences of place and body, underpin the exploration of different approaches to site-based dance and choreography.

Coming to know a place through movement develops into choreographies of place that frame values, ecological perceptions and reciprocal relations.