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Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces. edited by Melanie Kloetzel and Carolyn Pavlik. 2009. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. xi + 316 pp., foreword, preface, acknowledgments, 84 b/w photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth, $27.50 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Alana Gerecke
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University

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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2012

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Notes

1. Bernhardt is the founder of Dancing in the Streets in the Bronx, New York City, which is an organization that has been committed to the development of site dance since 1984.

2. Based in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, Bowers is the executive director of Dance Theatre Etcetera, a community-based organization that has strong ties to its local neighborhood and a nearly two-decade-long performance history on the Red Hook waterfront.

3. Bieringa founded the BodyCartography Project in 1997 in San Francisco, and was joined by Otto Ramstad in 1999. The co-directed, site-specific, dance and improvisation group is now based in Minneapolis and teaches and performs internationally.

4. Duckler is founder and director of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre (formerly known as Collage Dance Theatre). Formed in 1987, the site-specific dance company is based in Los Angeles.

5. Hardenbergh, the artistic director of Global Site Performance, has been choreographing large-scale, site-based dances since 1985. Based in Minneapolis, Hardenbergh continues to choreograph and present her work internationally.