8. Kinesphere — the total volume of a body’s potential movement, the intangible space the moving human body produces. It is best described by the geometrical form of an icosahedron and its centre is the Solar Plexus, the pivotal point for any movement.

9. “ What we might call ‘space-specific’ performances engage with formal parameters; while what we might call ‘place-specific’ performances engage with cultural and social meanings.” Source: Performance Studies International. Site-Specific Performance

10. “ Space lays down the law because it implies a certain order [...] Space commands bodies, prescribing or proscribing gestures, routes and distances to be covered.” (Henry Lefebvre, The Production of Space)

16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tjQQQO9QXA

32. In classical ballet the Pas de Deux (French, “step/dance together”) is the term for codified partner work. In site-specific performance the Pas d’Espace (French, “step/dance with space”) might be the term for partner work between body and architecture?

37. The discipline of phenomenology may be defined initially as the study of structures of experience, or consciousness. Literally, phenomenology is the study of “phenomena”: appearances of things, or things as they appear in our experience, or the ways we experience things, thus the meanings things have in our experience. Source: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/ (Retrieved 20/02/2010)

38. “ Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.” (Gaston Bachelard)

39. Creative Task: Develop a short site-specific performance for one of the corners of this studio based on Bachelard’s ideas in the “Poetics of Space”.