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Explore our wide range of resources to support your artistic practice and professional development.

Podcasts

Morning conversation: Choreographing the City at MIT

Silence and Stillness: In conversation with Richard Sennett and Adesola Akinleye

Dansateliers - Practicing dance dramaturgy: learning to learn

Books

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.

Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue) by Adesola Akinleye

This anthology explores alternative and parallel influences that shape the culture of ballet. The ‘we’ of ballet is complex, encompassing individuals and communities, often marginalized, who contribute to discourses about ballet beyond the mainstream White, patriarchal, Eurocentric, heterosexual constructs of gender, race and class. 8 b/w illus.

(Re:) Claiming Ballet edited by Adesola Akinleye

This book explores Black British dance from a number of previously-untold perspectives. Bringing together the voices of dance-artists, scholars, teachers and choreographers, it looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet, providing valuable insights into dance theory, performance, pedagogy, identity and culture. It challenges the presumption that Blackness, Britishness or dance are monolithic entities, instead arguing that all three are living networks created by rich histories, diverse faces and infinite future possibilities. Through a variety of critical and creative essays, this book suggests a widening of our conceptions of what British dance looks like, where it appears, and who is involved in its creation.

Narratives in Black British Dance. Embodied Practices Edited by Adeosla Akinleye

In this chapter, my aim is to share thoughts about the design of research and theoretical frameworks that place the bodily experience – movement – as central. In such a short amount of text I hope to merely start a conversation. There are three major propositions that underpin the direction of this chapter. The first is the rejection of dualist constructs of object and subject to re-place them with the idea of transaction. The second is the suggestion that communication is a partnership between listener and listened. The last is to propose that if we adopt the first two propositions and work from the perspective that we are transactional bodies (not object and Subject) and that meaning making is in the exchange, flow, partnership of interaction (communication), then we can consider inquiry into our ‘lives’ as being in the movement of betweeness – our lives are in movement. Despite a growing interest in the sociology of the body, there has to date been a lack of scholarly work addressing the embodied aspects which form a central part of our understanding and experience of sport and movement cultures. Researching Embodied Sport explores the political, social and cultural significance of embodied approaches to the study of sport, physical activities and dance. It explains how embodied approaches fit with existing theory in studies of sport and movement cultures and makes a compelling case for incorporating an embodied approach into the study of sporting practices and experience.

Her life in Movement: Reflections on embodiment as a methodology

Journals

This journal focuses on the relationship between dance and somatic practices, and the influence of this body of practice on the wider performing arts. The journal will be aimed at scholars and artists, providing a space for practitioners and theorists to debate the work, to consider the impact and influence of the work on performance, the interventions that somatic practices can have on other disciplines and the implications for research and teaching.

Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Guest Editors Adesola Akinleye and Helen Kindred

Transactional Space: Feedback, Critical Thinking, and Learning Dance Technique