February 2026.

Written with Dr Helen Kindred and drawing on our five-year practice-as/is-research collaboration, Concrete-Water-Flesh, this book explores how dance practices highlight embodied relationships with the environment.

This is dancing as dialogue: a study of movement and place that explores the fundamental entanglement of humans and the environment through dance.

Dancing Place: Scores of the city, scores of the shore intertwines dance ethnography, Black feminism, and a new materialist lens to explore movement scores as methods and tools for a practice of eco-somatic, place-based art-making. The book examines research processes that explore somatic awareness, offering choreographic movement scores as methods for sensing and belonging within the world around. Dancing Place blends scholarly text, storytelling, and poetic prose to discuss embodied dance methods that offer a reflective engagement within the environment, establishing a framework for understanding how movement both emerges from and shapes the places we inhabit. An essential resource for dance practitioners, spatial planners, ecologists, and environmental scholars, Dancing Place opens pathways for understanding dance as a method of reciprocity and deep relational practice.