Dance, Architecture and Engineering

In Conversation

Adesola Akinleye (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-18523-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Adesola Akinleye is a choreographer artist-scholar, Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University. Trained at Ballet Rambert, her career began dancing with Dance Theatre of Harlem, later working with UK Companies such as Carol Straker Dance Company and Green Candle. She creates dance works ranging from live performance that is often site-specific, to dance films, installations and texts including academic publications. She is a Research Fellow with Theatrum Mundi, visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and Research Affiliate and visiting artist at MIT.

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

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Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	Dance in Dialogue
Zusatzinfo	12 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
ISBN-10	1-350-18523-X / 135018523X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-18523-4 / 9781350185234
Zustand	Neuware