place-ballet

"..David Seamon developed a humanistic account of place which is full of movement. He used the term 'body-ballet' to refer to how the body moves habitually as it is performing some task such as driving, typing or cooking. when these body-ballets are strung together through a day they produce what Seamon called a 'time-space rountine', individuals followed 'time-space' routines throughout the day. often these routines are habitual. we drive to work, walk to the train, or go shopping on an almost daily basis.. when these 'time-space routines' coalesce they form a 'place-ballet'. in the town centre or city square, there are hundreds of people conducting their individual 'time-space routines' but they do so collectively in such a way that recognisable and regular patterns of practice emerge... Seamon's argument exhibit a kind of unchoreographed yet ordered practice that makes the place just as much as the place's more static and bounded qualities do."