Dance, architecture and engineering

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Label

Dance, architecture and engineering

Statement of responsibility

Adesola Akinleye

Creator

• Akinleye, Adesola,
• Akinleye, Adesola,

Author

• Akinleye, Adesola,
• Akinleye, Adesola,

Subject

• Cities and towns
• City planning -- Philosophy
• City planning -- Philosophy
• Dance -- Social aspects
• Dance -- Social aspects
• Dance -- Social aspects
• Public spaces
• Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects
• Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects
• Architecture and race
• Architecture and race
• Architecture and society
• Architecture and society

Language

eng

Summary

"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. "--

Member of

• Dance in dialogue

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

YDX

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Dance in dialogue