Full Description
This book was born from a year of exchanges of movement ideas generated in cross-practice conversations and workshops with dancers, musicians, architects and engineers. Events took place at key cultural institutions such as the Royal Academy of Arts, London; and The Lowry, Salford, as well as on-site at architectural firms and on the streets of London. The author engages with dance's offer of perspectives on being in place: how the 'ordinary person' is facilitated in experiencing the dance of the city, while also looking at shared cross-practice understandings in and about the body, weight and rhythm. There is a prioritizing of how embodied knowledges across dance, architecture and engineering can contribute to decolonizing the production of place - in particular, how dance and city-making cultures engage with female bodies and non-white bodies in today's era of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter. Akinleye concludes in response conversations about ideas raised in the book with John Bingham-Hall, Liz Lerman, Dianne McIntyer and Richard Sennett. The book is a fascinating resource for those drawn to spatial practices from dance to design to construction.
Contents
List of Figures
Part One:
Landing
Dance As Conversation with The Somatic
Framework: In Conversation with 'The Literature'
Part Two:
Chasing Stillness
Lingering In Dwelling, Residing in Wandering
Part Three:
The Art Of Infrastructure, Reflection Conversation with John Bingham-Hall
Choreography As Questioning The Knowable, Reflection Conversation with Liz Lerman
Whenness, Reflection Conversation with Richard Sennett
'I Am Going To Try To Be A Choreographer In The World' Reflection Conversation with Dianne McIntyre
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
