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Zusatztext This brilliant book brings together seemingly unconnected subjects, and conducts an exciting exploration of how our bodies experience movement and space in these contrasting contexts. It has made me think deeply about my own person and how I interact on a micro and macro scale with the world around me. Informationen zum Autor Adesola Akinleye is an artist-scholar. She began her career as a dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem (USA) later working in UK Companies. Over the past twenty years she has created dance works ranging from live performance that is often site-specific and involves a cross-section of the community to dance films, installations and texts. Her work is characterized by an interest in glimpsing and voicing peoples lived experiences through creative moving portraiture. Vorwort A groundbreaking investigation into the relationships and emerging vocabulary between dance-making and the making of buildings, cities and thereby communities. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresPart One:LandingDance As Conversation with The SomaticFramework: In Conversation with ‘The Literature’Part Two:Chasing StillnessLingering In Dwelling, Residing in WanderingPart Three:The Art Of Infrastructure, Reflection Conversation with John Bingham-HallChoreography As Questioning The Knowable, Reflection Conversation with Liz LermanWhenness, Reflection Conversation with Richard Sennett‘I Am Going To Try To Be A Choreographer In The World’ Reflection Conversation with Dianne McIntyre GlossaryBibliographyIndex...
