Dancing Place

Scores of the City, Scores of the Shore

Adesola Akinleye, Helen Kindred (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

146 Seiten

2026
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-83595-187-3 (ISBN)

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Dancing Place stories the author's experiences of moving together, making, being in the world. From an Africanist & Indigenous relational philosophy the book discusses artistic process of somatic-based movement inquiry through sharing the authors' work with scores over a 6-year research project, 'Concrete-Water-Flesh'. 25 illus.

The book explore how dance practices can be embodied through relationships with the environment. The book begins with discussing somatic experiences of being in Place; including discussing a sense of belonging to the environment through responsive movement. The second part offers infrastructures (scores) for generative movement drawn from transdisciplinary workshops. The book presents text, poetic prose, and image.

Dancing Place: Scores of the City, Scores of the Shore reveals the collaborative choreographic making process as a way of being in the world. In the book the authors story their experiences of working with scores as ways of noticing, sensing and bringing focus to moments within the assemblage of environments of which we are a part.

Adesola Akinleye is an Associate Professor of Dance at Texas Woman’s University. Helen Kindred is a Director of Studies at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. They are choreographers, dance artist-scholars, and co-directors of DancingStrong Movement Lab. They contribute to dance education and scholarship through publication, community activity, and performance making internationally.

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Concrete, Water, Flesh

I, you, we

Relationality

Bodies, humans, and flesh

Dance as method

Corporeality of the assemblage

Emplaced

Eco-somatic

With and in assemblages

Beginning

2. Everyday-Scores, Feedback-Scores, and Choreographic-Scores

Concrete: Everyday city scores

Water: Feedback-scores

Flesh: Choreographic-scores

Summary

3. Whitstable and Margate: Proficiencies in Emergence and Infrastructure

Water: Longshore drift and emergence

Concrete: Lido layers and infrastructure

Flesh: With-in the shore

Summary

4. Presence With-In Scores

Flesh: Presence is at the periphery

Water: Presence as emergent intensities

Concrete: Performance and the opacity of choreographic-scores

Summary

5. Eco-somatic Collaborations

A review

Flesh: Being in process with-in processes

Concrete: Co-authorship and accountability of collaboration with things

Water: Fluid collaborations, flow of authorship

Summary

6. Methods with Scores

Water: Iterations of scores

Flesh: Doing scores

Concrete: Knowing scores

Summary

Coda

Practice Works

Choreographing the city: July

… whispers

Between the land and the sea: Rebuilding Margate’s Lido

Surrendered

Concrete-Water-Flesh at Deptford Beach/Global Water Dances

Three-week residency by the sea

Three-day practice at the shore (Margate and Whitstable)

SPLASH!

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.2.2026
Zusatzinfo	25 Halftones, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
ISBN-10	1-83595-187-2 / 1835951872
ISBN-13	978-1-83595-187-3 / 9781835951873
Zustand	Neuware