This book explores the relationship between the body, ecology, place, and site-specific performance. The book is situated within arts-based research, particularly within embodied inquiry and poetic inquiry. It explores a theoretical foundation for integration of these areas, primarily to share the lived experiences, poetry and dance which have come out of decades of sharing site-specific performances. Chapter 1. Coming to our Senses: The Body's Capacity for Creation.- Chapter 2. Place, Ecology and the Poetic.- Chapter 3. Water, Tides and Heron Lessons.- Chapter 4. Lessons from a Botanical Garden - Fall and Winter.- Chapter 5. Lessons from a Botanical Garden - Spring and Summer.- Chapter 6. Dance in COVID times: Site-Specific Art in the In-between.- Chapter 7. The Body as Portal.
Celeste Nazeli Snowber is a dancer, poet, writer and award-winning educator. She is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
