Dancing Place
Dancing Place (Book)
Scores of the City, Scores of the Shore
Dancing Place stories the author's experiences of moving together, making, bing in the world. From an Africanist & Indigenous relational philosophy the book discusses artistic process of somatic-based movement inquiry through sharing the authors' work with scores over a 6-year research project, 'Concrete-Water-Flesh'. 25 illus.
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The book explore how dance practices can be embodied through relationships with the environment. The book begins with discussing somatic experiences of being in Place; including discussing a sense of belonging to the environment through responsive movement. The second part offers infrastructures (scores) for generative movement drawn from transdisciplinary workshops. The book presents text, poetic prose, and image.
Dancing Place: Scores of the City, Scores of the Shore reveals the collaborative choreographic making process as a way of being in the world. In the book the authors story their experiences of working with scores as ways of noticing, sensing and bringing focus to moments within the assemblage of environments of which we are a part.
Dr Adesola Akinleye is a choreographer and artist-scholar and co-artistic director of DancingStrong Movement Lab. Adesola 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 scholarly texts.
Dr Helen Kindred is a choreographer and dance artist-scholar, and co-artistic director of DancingStrong Movement Lab. Helen creates dance works that centre around somatic-based improvisation practices in performance in relationships with site, text, people, and environments.
List of Figures
Thank Yous
Chapter One: Concrete, Water, Flesh
I, You, We
Relationality
Bodies, Humans, and flesh
Dance as method
Transcorporeality of the assemblage
Eco-somatic
With and in Assemblages
Beginning
Chapter Two: Everyday Scores, Feedback Scores, and Choreographic Scores
Concrete: Everyday city scores
Water: Feedback scores
Flesh: Choreographic Scores
Summary
Chapter Three: Proficiencies in Emergence and Infrastructures
Water: Longshore drift and emergence
Concrete: Lido layers and infrastructure
Flesh: With-in the beach
Summary
Chapter Four: Presence with-in Scores
Flesh: Presence is at the periphery
Water: Presence as emergent intensities
Concrete: Performance and the opacity of choreographic-scores
Summary
Chapter Five: Eco-somatic Collaborations
Flesh: Being in process with-in processes
Concrete: Co-authorship and accountability of collaboration with things
Water: Fluid collaborations, flow of authorship
Summary
Chapter Six: Score Methods
Water: Iterations of scores
Flesh: Doing scores
Concrete: Knowing scores
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
