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This chapter explores experiences and relations of interiority, intimacy and connection encountered within domestic dwelling spaces. Through site-based dance and movement practice the body’s physicality in relation to home sites is explored and reflected on to consider what human-home relations might comprise. The chapter encompasses examples of site dance practice created and performed in home spaces and includes scores for site-based body practice designed to encourage a form of ‘homing’ practice to emerge. Through a consideration of site-based body practice applied in this context, the discussion explores how the body-self ‘homes in’ to the particularities of specific home sites and considers how materially informed relations infuse the practice leading to reflection on the modes of relationality between bodies and domestic home spaces that emerge as a result.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Further examples of the body as a home site can be found in Andrea Olsen’s work The Place of Dance (2014).

  2. 2.

    Charlotte Weinberg and Obinna Nwosu explore conflicted and dislocated home relations in their chapter ‘Domestic Dislocation—When home is not so sweet’ (2018)

  3. 3.

    In contrast to this view on domesticity, ideas of a ‘domestic uncanny’ inform Gillian Dyson’s live-art practice involving domestic objects and materials such as tables and broken crockery in which she performs a form of estranged engagement with familiar household items that are made unfamiliar through performative acts (http://gilliandyson.co.uk/).

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    Lisa Kendell, a performer in the work, observes, ‘In its most usual form A String Section is a tightly scored 47-minute improvisatory encounter for five women, slippery in its ability to be defined as any particular genre of performance’ (2016: 139).

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    These ideas form the basis of Daniel Miller’s publication, The Comfort of Things (2008), in which he explores the lives and stories of residents from a London street and presents insights into contemporary urban living and constructions of subjectivity instigated through discussion and observation of how individuals decorate their homes and articulate their relationships with the ornaments, pictures and objects they choose to display.

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Hunter, V. (2021). Home: Interiority and Intimacy. In: Site, Dance and Body. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64800-8_5

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