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Notes
1. Soundscore excerpt, The Library Dances, 2006.
2. The work was co-funded by the Arts Council and the University of Leeds and involved a creative team comprising myself as choreographer/director and a team of locally based practitioners including Ronan McNern (lighting design/technical manager), Adam Longbottom (composer), Oliver Mallett (creative writer), Lindsay Davies (designer), and Nicola Greenan (project manager).
3. Harold M. Proshansky, Abbe K. Fabian and Robert Kamino, ‘Place-Identity: Physical World Socialization of the Self’, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 3 (1983), 61–68.
4. Sondra Fraleigh, Dance and The Lived Body: A Descriptive Aesthetics (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987); Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception (London: Routledge, 1962).
5. Doreen Massey, For Space (London: Sage, 2005).
6. Ong Keng Sen, ‘Desiring Mobility’, Performance Research, 12 (2007), pp. 146–47.
7. Peter Adey, Mobility (London: Routledge, 2010), p. 12.
8. Proshansky et al., ‘Place-Identity’, pp. 61, 64, 66.
9. Pierre Bourdieu, cited in Jean Hiller and Emma Rooksby, ‘Introduction to First Edition’, in Habitus: A Sense of Place, ed. by Hiller and Rooksby (London: Ashgate Press, 2005), pp.10–31 (p. 13).
10. Ibid., p. 21.
11. See Craig Hartman, ‘Memory Palace, Place of Refuge, Coney Island of the Mind’, Research Strategies, 17 (2000), 107–121; Michael Cart, ‘Here There Be Sanctuary: The Public Library as Refuge and Retreat’, Public Library Quarterly, 12 (1992) 5–23; Helen Ligget, ‘City Sights/Sites of Memories and Dreams’, in Helen Ligget and David Perry (eds), Spatial Practices (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995), pp. 243–272.
12. Extracts from audience questionnaire, The Library Dances project, September 2006. Audience questionnaires were completed after each performance and were completed by all audience members enabling them to provide feedback regarding their experiences and feelings encountered during the performance event. Extracts included in this article were taken from six questionnaire responses.
13. Extracts from audience questionnaire, The Library Dances project, September 2006.
14. The term ‘site-reality’ was developed throughout the devising process to describe the individual's immediate lived-experience of the site. The concept of the ‘lived experience’ in dance draws upon phenomenological philosophy and focuses on perceiving and experiencing the world in a pre-reflective manner, responding in the moment through the lived experience of the body. See Fraleigh, Dance and The Lived Body.
15. Massey, For Space, p. 114.
16. This concern for exploring ‘co-existence’ can also be evidenced in Shobana Jeyasingh's site-specific dance work [h]Interland (2002) performed in the Borough Hall, Greenwich. This work explored issues of specificity and simultaneity across time and space through the exploration of ‘different presences overlapping in the same arena’. Sanjoy Roy (2002) <www.rescen.net/Shobana-Jeyasingh/hinterland> [accessed 5 November 2009].
17. The performances were held over a three-day period, occurring twice daily, they were publicised locally and were open to the general public.
20. Louise McDowall, Assistant Choreographer, The Library Dances Project, September 2006 (unpublished journal entry).
18. Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception.
19. Quoted in Fraleigh, Dance and The Lived Body, p. 6.
21. Fraleigh, Dance and The Lived Body, p. 62.
22. Franco La Cecla, ‘Getting Lost and the Localized Mind’, in Alan Read (ed.), Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 31–49 (p. 31).
23. Ibid., p. 31.
24. Massey, For Space, p. 24.
25. Extracts from audience questionnaire, The Library Dances project, September 2006.
26. Extracts from audience questionnaire, The Library Dances project, September 2006.
27. Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), p. 165.
28. Extracts from audience questionnaires, The Library Dances project, September 2006.
29. Extracts from audience questionnaire, The Library Dances project, September 2006.
30. Proshansky et al., ‘Place-Identity’, p. 67.
32. Extracts from audience questionnaires (library staff), The Library Dances project, September 2006.
31. For a discussion of site-specific dance performance and re-inscription see Valerie Briginshaw, Dance, Space and Subjectivity (London: Palgrave, 2001).