Dance, Architecture and Engineering: In Conversation

di Adesola Akinleye (Autore)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2022

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.

• Autore: Adesola Akinleye
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Collana: Dance in Dialogue
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 176 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• EAN: 9781350185234

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