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This anthology explores alternative and parallel influences that shape the culture of ballet. The ''we'' of ballet is complex, encompassing individuals and communities, often marginalized, who contribute to discourses about ballet beyond the mainstream White, patriarchal, Eurocentric, heterosexual constructs of gender, race and class. 8 b/w illus.
New Books Network (New Books in Performing Arts) interview with Adesola Akinleye
A propos de l'auteur
Dr Adesola Akinleye (she/they) is a choreographer, artist-scholar and co-artistic director of DancingStrong Movement Lab. Adesola is an assistant professor in the Division of Dance at Texas Woman’s University. Adesola has been an affiliate researcher at Arts, Culture and Technology, MIT, a visiting artist at Center for Art, Science and Technology, MIT, and a Theatrum Mundi Fellow. Adesola’s career began as a dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem Workshop Ensemble (United States) later working in UK companies such as Green Candle and Carol Straker Dance Company. Over the past twenty years Adesola has created dance works ranging from live performance that is often site-specific and involves a sense of community to dance films, installations and texts. Adesola’s work could be described as interested in noticing/honouring lived experiences of places through creative moving portraiture.
Contact: Texas Woman’s University, 304 Administration Dr., Denton, TX 76204, USA.
Résumé
This anthology explores alternative and parallel influences that shape the culture of ballet. The 'we' of ballet is complex, encompassing individuals and communities, often marginalized, who contribute to discourses about ballet beyond the mainstream White, patriarchal, Eurocentric, heterosexual constructs of gender, race and class. 8 b/w illus.
