PYP Site Specific Dance

Mr. Jude, our Performing Arts Facilitator, has been doing a new Dance activity with the PYP Students over the past couple of weeks. He is doing "Site Specific Dance" with his students!

What is Site Specific Dance you ask? This form of Performance rose in the Late Sixties as post modernists like Trisha Brown popularized it. Site Specific Dance is a performance that is designed to exist in any given location that is not a traditional stage! The World around you is a Stage!

The performer will be in a given place with various physical obstacles like trees, chairs, rocks or anything else depending on the environment, and they have to utilize these aspects as a part of their performance! How can those obstacles be a part of the dance instead?

According to Mr. Jude, the Site Specific Dance Exercise gives children a lesson to not run away from challenges. Rather they see them as opportunities to take risks.

Site-specific dance is defined as a performance that has been designed to exist in a certain place outside of the proscenium stage. Born out of the Happenings of the late sixties, this form of dance was earliest explored by postmodernists like Trisha Brown.