Book Review: Dance, Place, and Poetics: Site-Specific Performance as a Portal to Knowing
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https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-4467.40863Keywords:
embodiment, curriculum studies, site-specific performance, somatics, poetic inquiryAbstract
Celeste Nazeli Snowber’s 2022 book Dance, Place, and Poetics: Site-Specific Performance as a Portal to Knowingcannot fully be captured in a review. The book combines dance videos, sound recordings, poetry and incredible photos. The author offers a refreshing and rejuvenating yet radical approach to a relational understanding of ourselves and others, both humans and non-humans. In this text, I walk the reader through the book. I summarize and highlight the main themes and trends as they relate to curriculum studies.
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