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Dance, Architecture and Engineering: In Conversation - Dance in Dialogue Akinleye, Adesola (Texas Woman’s University, USA)
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Dance, Architecture and Engineering: In Conversation - Dance in Dialogue
Akinleye, Adesola (Texas Woman’s University, USA)
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.
176 pages, 12 bw illus
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | November 17, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350185234 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 176 |
| Dimensions | 199 × 128 × 12 mm · 172 g |
| Language | English |
