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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.
'This is a beautiful book! Akinleye and Kindred articulate a trans-corporeal practice of site-specifi c dance, inviting us to imagine new worlds where cities and seashores are danced as modes of connection and community. This is an inventive, provocative, and inspiring text that culminates in a manifesto for creating choreographic scores as methods and practices for ecosomatic, place-based research that embraces relationality and collaboration across bodies and places.'
— Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Nature, Science, Environment and the Material Self
Adesola Akinleye is an Associate Professor of Dance at Texas Woman’s University. Helen Kindred is a Director of Studies at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. They are choreographers, dance artist-scholars, and co-directors of DancingStrong Movement Lab. They contribute to dance education and scholarship through publication, community activity, and performance making internationally.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Concrete, Water, Flesh
I, you, we
Relationality
Bodies, humans, and flesh
Dance as method
Corporeality of the assemblage
Emplaced
Eco-somatic
With and in assemblages
Beginning
2. Everyday-Scores, Feedback-Scores, and Choreographic-Scores
Concrete: Everyday city scores
Water: Feedback-scores
Flesh: Choreographic-scores
Summary
3. Whitstable and Margate: Proficiencies in Emergence and Infrastructure
Water: Longshore drift and emergence
Concrete: Lido layers and infrastructure
Flesh: With-in the shore
Summary
4. Presence With-In Scores
Flesh: Presence is at the periphery
Water: Presence as emergent intensities
Concrete: Performance and the opacity of choreographic-scores
Summary
5. Eco-somatic Collaborations
A review
Flesh: Being in process with-in processes
Concrete: Co-authorship and accountability of collaboration with things
Water: Fluid collaborations, flow of authorship
Summary
6. Methods with Scores
Water: Iterations of scores
Flesh: Doing scores
Concrete: Knowing scores
Summary
Coda
Practice Works
Choreographing the city: July
… whispers
Between the land and the sea: Rebuilding Margate’s Lido
Surrendered
Concrete-Water-Flesh at Deptford Beach/Global Water Dances
Three-week residency by the sea
Three-day practice at the shore (Margate and Whitstable)
SPLASH!
Notes
Bibliography
Index