ABSTRACT
Exploring how embodied population of sites might invoke new encounters with familiar spaces and places for both mover and audience, this chapter offers a practitioner perspective charting the linage and working processes of Enter and Inhabit. In seeking to reveal the sensorial exploration intrinsic to the collaborative process of Enter and Inhabit, it focuses on a philosophical perspective to theorize the slow and sensate in embodied encounter within site responsive dance making. Offering case study examples characteristic of the work of Enter and Inhabit, the chapter explores how an emphasis on the sensory perceptual cycle as understood by Body-Mind Centering (BMC) and improvizational practices more widely enables an attentive dialogue between the materiality of site and an attuned body-mind. It concludes by proposing that the slow, more than an act of interruption, can be re-inscribed as an inherent and ever present aspect of the dance and creative process, rather than just an interruption of late capitalist modernity.
