Navigations: scoring the moment
In this short monograph, I discuss a transdisciplinary lexicon of Place-making. This is the result of activity during my Theatrum Mundi Research Fellowship and MIT residency. The book offers a scaffolding for shared exploration, liberating communication from the contingencies and limitations of different subject areas.
November 2022
Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue)
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. There is a prioritizing of how embodied knowledges across dance, architecture and engineering can contribute to decolonizing the production of Place.
April 2021
(re:)claiming ballet
This edited anthology looks beyond mainstream ballet, bringing to light the overlooked influences that continue to inform the culture of ballet. An essential resource for the field of ballet studies and a major contribution to dance scholarship more broadly, (re:)claiming ballet will appeal to academics, researchers, and scholars; dance professionals and practitioners; and anyone interested in the intersection of race, class, gender, and dance.
April 2021
Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices
This edited anthology remedies the distinct lack of publication on Dance of the African Diaspora from a postcolonial British perspective. Within the book are contributions from scholars and artists from across the field of dance. The book explores the multi-layered, multi-dimensional nature of artists and artistic work from within the spectrums of ‘Blackness’, ‘Britishness’, and ‘dance’
Akinleye, A. ed., (2018). Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices. London: Springer.