Helen Kindred and I are so excited to submit the final manuscript of Dancing Place: scores of the city, scores of the shore to Intellect Books Press. The book is due to be available for Fall ’25.
“In this book, we share our use of movement scores as a method of somatic exploration within a practice-as/is-research paradigm. We use scores to explore the somatic sensing we discover through dancing with each other and other ‘things’ around. We have found our use of scores has revealed fascinating information about how we are present, and our responsibilities, in the everyday environment. Dancing Place: Scores of the City, Scores of the Shore, draws on a six-year movement lab. project called Concrete-Water-Flesh. During this lab. we worked together through the development and performance of scores in city sites and on seashores. Through this, we developed techniques for work with dance scores that unexpectedly offered us insight into collaborative processes for spatial practices and Place-based research. The scores manifested dance methods and tools for a practice of eco-somatic, Place-based art-making.”