Dancing Place

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.