Practising Place

Abstract

This chapter explores the ways in which place becomes action in the physical practices presented in this collection. It elaborates on notions of the kinaesthetic as topological and dwelling as choreographic and traces the expansion of our thinking the choreographic. The first section asks in what way ‘place studies’ — a philosophical, psychological and geographical approach to thinking embodied place — adds an interdisciplinary dimension to our extension of the notion of the choreographic. These perspectives of embodied place as action offer both points of convergence and counterpoint to the themes of choreographic dwelling. Although not emerging from the artistic realm, such concepts of place and agency have been useful in revealing, framing and unravelling the coupling of the choreographic as dwelling and the kinaesthetic as topological.

We move with, by, around and through place but how might we describe this choreographically?