Text: Victoria Hunter *This article was originally published in the Choreographic Practises. Hunter, V. (2019),‘Vernacular mapping: Site dance and embodied urban cartographies’, Choreographic Practices, 10:1, pp. 127–44, doi: 10.1386/chor.10.1.127_1 All photos are of Bodies in Urban Spaces, choreographed by Willi Dorner (Macau, 2025). Photos: Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro (Provided by Babel Cultural Organization) Introduction In this article I explore the potential of site-based danc