ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the choreographer's facilitation of the performer and audience's lived experience of site through the medium of site-specific dance performance explored through a discussion of author's dance installation work entitled Project 3 (2007). It considers the concepts of spatial translation, 'present-ness' and 'embodied reflexivity' in relation to the individual's experiencing of space and place encountered within the site-specific event. The chapter examines how site-specific dance performance informed by phenomenological inquiry invoke a 'present' sense of engagement with space and place for both performer and audience and how this process 'reveal' the site to the individual and inform their sense of 'being-in-the-world'. The project explored the potential for site-specific 'encounters' to increase the audience members' awareness of site through their engagement with the live, real-time performance event, leading to the potential invocation of an increased awareness of self.
