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cultural geographies in practice

cultural geographies in practice cultural geographies 2006 13: 610 616 Triptych: dancing in Thirdspace Katrinka Somdahl-Sands I just spent the last two hours of my life dressed in a business suit, dancing and singing and doing theatre with other similarly dressed folks in public. Today we started in City Hall, where we did two slow motion walks down the majestic interior staircase to the sound of three singing haunting harmonies from a balcony high ance as an art form is spatial in a number of interesting ways. Yi-Fu Tuan is interested in the flow of dance, while Nigel Thrift is focused on ‘the still point’. George Revill explored the pro- cess of learning to execute the folk dances of France effortlessly, whereas Tim Cresswell examined mobility and the codification of English ballroom dan- cing in the early twentieth century. Here ‘Tenderloin* San Francisco street festival’ you will be introduced to the BodyCarto- (Photo: Alex Zaphiris) graphy Project, an explicitly political and geographical ongoing dance project. The scholarship: geographical writing on the BodyCartography Project, led by Olive role of the body in shaping space, Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, chooses pub- assumptions about the appropriate uses lic places that convey particular meanings of public space, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

cultural geographies in practice

Somdahl-Sands, Katrinka
Cultural Geographies , Volume 13 (4): 7 – Oct 1, 2006
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cultural geographies 2006 13: 610 616 Triptych: dancing in Thirdspace Katrinka Somdahl-Sands I just spent the last two hours of my life dressed in a business suit, dancing and singing and doing theatre with other similarly dressed folks in public. Today we started in City Hall, where we did two slow motion walks down the majestic interior staircase to the sound of three singing haunting harmonies from a balcony high ance as an art form is spatial in a number of interesting ways. Yi-Fu Tuan is interested in the flow of dance, while Nigel Thrift is focused on ‘the still point’. George Revill explored the pro- cess of learning to execute the folk dances of France effortlessly, whereas Tim Cresswell examined mobility and the codification of English ballroom dan- cing in the early twentieth century. Here ‘Tenderloin* San Francisco street festival’ you will be introduced to the BodyCarto- (Photo: Alex Zaphiris) graphy Project, an explicitly political and geographical ongoing dance project. The scholarship: geographical writing on the BodyCartography Project, led by Olive role of the body in shaping space, Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, chooses pub- assumptions about the appropriate uses lic places that convey particular meanings of public space,

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