Theatrum Mundi celebrates the launch of Theatrum Mundi Fellow Adesola Akinleye’s latest book Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue). The event takes place this Friday 30th of April at 7 pm ( London GMT)
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.
Adesola 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 knowledge across dance, architecture, and engineering can contribute to decolonizing the production of place, how dance and city-making cultures engage with female bodies and non-white bodies in today’s era of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter.
The book launch will include an introduction by Theatrum Mundi director and book contributor John Bingham-Hall, and author Adesola Akinleye. Theatrum Mundi Associate Director, curator, commissioner and artist, Marta Michalowska, will give readings from the book. DancingStrong Movement Lab will also present excerpts from Concrete-Water-Flesh live, live online dance performance drawing on choreographic ideas revealed by the process of making the book itself.
The evening, which is free to attend, will end with a Q&A with attendees.
For further information please visit the Theatrum Mundi website
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