Dance, Architecture and Engineering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akinleye, Adesola.

Series:

Dance in Dialogue

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.

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.

Contents:

Intro

Half-Title

Series

Title

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Glossary

Part One

1 Landing

Togetherness as artistic endeavour

2 Dance as conversation with the somatic

'Making up dances' and 'choreography'

Choreographic dance languages

3 Framework: In conversation with 'the literature'

Who 'we' are

A Being-in-Place framework

Situation

'Mind-ful-body' in transaction

Embodiment

Identity through the somatic experience of Being-in-Place

Part Two

4 Chasing stillness

Citybody

A conversation on waiting

People do stop in Waterloo Station: at the top of the escalators!

Spatial acts of presence, stillness as presence

Weaving ideas - possessing the ground

A dance to be made: the poetics of body on Demonic Grounds

Possessing the street after ballet class

5 Lingering in Dwelling, Residing in Wandering

A conversation about wandering

Permeable, hovering

Dwelling and wandering as acts of willing incompleteness

Landscapes of opportunity

Performance of Self as architecture

Hyper-invisibility

A dance to be made: Desire Lines

Part Three

6 The Art of Infrastructure: reflection conversation with John Bingham-Hall

The art of infrastructure

Ghosts and the unfinished

The aesthetic of becoming

7 Choreography as questioning the knowable: reflection conversation with Liz Lerman

Us-ness

Sharing

8 Whenness: reflection conversation with Richard Sennett

'Yes-it-is-made'

Stillness and silence

9 'I am going to try to be a choreographer in the world': reflection conversation with Dianne McIntyre

I want to try to be in the world

'Spontaneous composition'

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

Copyright.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781350185203

1350185205

OCLC:

1240366907