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Dancing Place

Scores of the City, Scores of the Shore

Adesola Akinleye author Helen Kindred author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Intellect

Publishing:13th Feb '26

£39.95

This title is due to be published on 13th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Dancing Place cover

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

ISBN: 9781835951873

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

146 pages