Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces

Illustrations

Illustrations Figure 1.The BodyCartography Project in San Francisco (2000) 4 Figure 2. The Halprin dance deck (1971) 10 Figure 3. Anna Halprin’s dancers in an airport hangar (1950) 11 Figure 4. Man Walking Down the Side of a Building (1970) by Trisha Brown 14 Figure 5. Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig’s WaterSkyBoatFly (1996) 21 Figure 6. Joanna Haigood’s Cho-Mu (1993) 25 Figure 7. Meredith Monk’s description for Loft Tour (1969) 41 Figure 8. Audiences exploring the Guggenheim spiral for Juice 42 Figure 9. Dancers in the Guggenheim Museum during Juice (1969) by Meredith Monk 43 Figure 10. Costumes and props for Juice at The House Loft 44 Figure 11. A handwritten manifesto by Monk 45 Figure 12. The first installment of Vessel (1971) by Meredith Monk 46 Figure 13. The second installment of Vessel 47 Figure 14. The third installment of Vessel 48 Figure 15. Needlebrain Lloyd and the Systems Kid (1970) by Meredith Monk 51 Figure 16. The main musical theme in the first installment of Juice 51 Figure 17. Departure and Arrival (2007) by Joanna Haigood 54 Figure 18. Inverted States (2005) by Joanna Haigood 56 Figure 19. Flying off a clock tower in Joanna Haigood’s Noon (1995) 59 Figure 20. Joanna Haigood’s Ghost Architecture (2003) 61 Figure 21. A character/resident from Ghost Architecture 63 Figure 22. Dancers in Grand Step Project: Flight (2004) by Stephan Koplowitz 67 Figure 23. The coal shaft in Kohle Körper (1999) by Stephan Koplowitz 69 Figure 24. Dancers climb the walls in Kohle Körper 72 Figure 25. Dancers in Genesis Canyon (1996) by Stephan Koplowitz 76 Figure 26. Performing in the windows for Koplowitz’s Fenestrations (1987) 79 Figure 27. Laundromatinee (1998) by Heidi Duckler 86 Figure 28. Heidi Duckler’s Most Wanted (1997) 88 viii Figure 29. Mother Ditch (1995) by Heidi Duckler 89 Figure 30. Heidi Duckler’s Sleeping with the Ambassador (2003) 91 Figure 31. Sufi Ertur in Liquid Assets (1998) by Heidi Duckler 93 Figure 32. Lawyers performing in Ann Carlson’s “Sloss, Kerr, Rosenberg & Moore” (2007) 106 Figure 33. Archival photo at the train depot in Livingston, Montana (c. 1926) 109 Figure 34. Reenacting the depot photo for Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom’s Geyser Land (2003) 109 Figure 35. Archival photo of Gandy dancers (1946) 117 Figure 36. The “Gandy dancers” in Geyser Land (2003) 117 Figure 37. Olive Bieringa performing GO in Paris (2007) 119 Figure 38. Kilda Northcott performs in The BodyCartography Project’s Lagoon (2003) 127 Figure 39. Wilhemeena Gordon et al. in Lagoon 130 Figure 40. Bieringa exploring boundaries on site (2000) 133 Figure 41. The BodyCartography Project improvising on an unusual surface (2003) 135 Figure 42. Bieringa in GO in Minneapolis (2006) 139 Figure 43. Karen McMahon Hedley and Leah Stein improvising at Bryce Canyon 143 Figure 44. Dancers at Longwood Gardens in Leah Stein’s Falling from the Sky (2000) 145 Figure 45. Corner Lot (2000) by Leah Stein 148 Figure 46. Leah Stein’s Bardo (2005) 153 Figure 47. Performers and sculptural installations in Leah Stein’s Return (1994) 155 Figure 48. Marylee Hardenbergh’s Solstice Falls on Friday (1985) 160 Figure 49. People photographing Hardenbergh’s Urban Sky Harvest (1991) 162 Figure 50. One of the many locales for Hardenbergh’s One River Mississippi (2006) 168 Figure 51. Using fabric to define vast spaces in One River Mississippi 170 Figure 52. Audiences joining in with gesture in One River Mississippi 172 Figure 53. Eiko & Koma in Snow (1999) 173 Figure 54. Eiko & Koma float downstream in River (1995) 180 Figure 55. Eiko & Koma near the World Trade Center in Event Fission (1980) 186 Figure 56. Eiko & Koma in Breath (1998) 191 Illustrations ix Figure 57. Eiko Otake in Caravan Project (1999) 193 Figure 58. Eiko & Koma perform Offering in Bryant Park (2002) 197 Figure 59. Sally Jacques’ Where Nothing Falls (2003) 201 Figure 60. The decorated beds in Jacques’ 64 Beds (1988) 204 Figure 61. Performers on the Intel building in Jacques’ Requiem (2006) 208 Figure 62. Laura Cannon descends to earth in Requiem 211 Figure 63. Nicole Whiteside rehearsing her solo for Requiem 212 Figure 64. Jason Akira Somma in A Curious Invasion (1997) by PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER 218 Figure 65. Dancers on Coney Island in Graven Images (1987) by PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER 220 Figure 66. Patrik Widrig’s map for A Curious Invasion/Wave Hill (2001) 225 Figure 67. Playing...