Site-Specific Dance

“All the World’s a Stage: Site-Specific Dance in the 21st Century.”
Dance Magazine, April 2008, feature.
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“On Location: The BodyCartography Project Talks About the Importance of Place.”
Mnartists.org, January 7, 2008, article.
To read, visit: mnartists.org/article.do?rid=174536

“OnStage: Or, rather, not quite on stage. A curtain call at dusk, intermission at a mausoleum. Three dance/theater works this month take place outdoors or in unconventional venues.”
Star Tribune, September 14, 2007, cover story.
To read, visit: startribune.com/1555/story/1421634.html

“Site-Specific Dance, De-Familiarization, and the Transformation of Place and Community.” 2005 Conference Proceedings, Congress on Research in Dance.

“Dancing Through Architecture. Heidi Duckler’s Collage Dance Theatre and the architecture of Los Angeles.”
LA Architect, September 2005, cover story.

“Riverfront Awakening. An open-air, site-specific dance performance by Maryless Hardenbergh celebrates the Minneapolis riverfront, inviting audiences to experience the river in a whole new way.”
Architecture Minnesota, July-August, 2005, feature [PDF]

“Dancers Take Wing in ‘Bird Brain.’ Jennifer Monson’s troupe gives site-specific performances of an ongoing dance work based on the migration patterns of ducks and geese.”
Star Tribune, April 25, 2004, feature.

“Celestial Rhythms: Site Dance as Ritual. In Marylee Hardenbergh’s site-specific dances, the circle from primitive communal healing ritual to contemporary site-specific dance as community healing ritual is complete.”
Ruminator Review, Winter 2003-2004, feature.

“Park Place. Guided by a sense of humor, environmental concerns and a surrealist novel by a 1970s feminist [Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet], Cynthia Stevens has created a dance to be performed in Wirth Park.”
Star Tribune, June 21, 2002, feature.

“Lines in Space. Dancing in midair. At night. With electronic music and video. Joanna Haigood’s long-awaited “Picture Powderhorn” opens today on a grain silo near you.”
Star Tribune, August 25, 2000, cover story.

“Dance as Big as All Outdoors.” Creators of site-specific dance works consider Mother Nature a collaborator. Dance Magazine, April 1996, feature.

“On-Site Inventions: Heidi Duckler’s Collage Dance Theatre.” Under Duckler’s innovative direction, laundromats, car washes, and swimming pools become venues for site-specific dance works laden with meaning and drama.
The World and I, November 1996, feature.

“This Time, This Place: Site-Specific Dance.” A few western choreographers are exploring the interplay of landscape and dance, community and art.
Artpaper, October 1993, feature.