Dance, architecture and engineering / Adesola Akinleye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akinleye, Adesola, author.

Series:

Dance in dialogue

Dance in Dialogue.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society.

Architecture and race.

Dance--Social aspects.

Dance.

Artists and architects.

City planning--Philosophy.

City planning.

Space (Architecture)--Social aspects.

Space (Architecture).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Methuen Drama, 2021

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"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. "-- Provided by publisher.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350185227

9781350185203

OCLC:

1240366907

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.