November 2, 2024

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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