Levels of Site Specificity
- Studio-/stage-based: not site-specific at all; the traditional stage or theatre
- Studio as site: using the theatre space (or site) in an unusual way, for example, performing in the aisles; also not site-specific.
- Site-specific: using a one-of-a-kind site as a contextual container (e.g. A Midsummer Night's Dream performed in a forest).
- Site-generic: using a generic kind of site (one that is not perfectly unique), so that it can be replicated or modeled elsewhere (e.g. performance for football pitch or Stephan Koplowitz's "Grand Step Project" staircase performances)
- Site-responsive: using the site as resource for the performance material (e.g. #3 HOLD by Scrap and Salvage of San Francisco, created and performed in the bottom deck of a cargo ship: the USS Golden Bear)
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