Dancing Place

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.

'This is a beautiful book! Akinleye and Kindred articulate a trans-corporeal practice of site-specific 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.'

• 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