ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the concepts of mobility, transformation and re-location in the creation, production and experiencing of site-specific dance performance. It investigates processes and practices of mobility through a consideration of the triadic relationship between performer, audience and site encountered within the creation of author's site-specific dance work The Library Dances. The chapter also explores how the mobile, experiential interplay between performer, audience and site problematised subjective notions of 'located-ness', fixity and 'place identity'. The site-specific dance performance event holds the potential to abstract, amplify and highlight some of the everyday interconnected practices and processes of mobility experienced by the individual. The discussion of The Library Dances reveals how this type of performance encounter encourages the individual to become self-aware and present in their engagement with space, place and environment and exposes the ever-shifting, ever-mobile nature of these very individual physical and experiential processes.
