‘Words’ gathers the projects where language moves—through books, essays, journal articles, and pod-cast conversations. Whether written or spoken, these works reflect danced exchanges of ideas in dialogue with community, memory, and imagination.
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Fragile Edges: Dance as a Provocation for Human-ness (Open Access Journal Article)
Latest News: July 2026, my article Fragile Edge: Dance as a Provocation for Human-ness was published in the Special Issue of Arts: Bodies on Edge in a Globalized World, guest edited by Dr Rebekah J. Kowal and Dr Gerald Siegmund.
I enjoyed writing this article, which moved me more towards a philosophical discussion using practice as/is research activity.
In February, my third monograph, Dancing Place: Scores of the City, Scores of the Shore, co-written with Helen Kindred, was be published. Dancing Place: Scores of the City, Scores of the Shore weaves with dance, ethnography, Black feminism, and a (k)new materialist lens to explore movement scores as methods and tools for a practice of eco-somatic, place-based art-making.
‘This is a beautiful book! Akinleye and Kindred articulate a trans-corporeal practice of site-specific dance, inviting us to imagine new worlds where cities and seashores are danced as modes of connection and community. …’- Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Nature, Science, Environment and the Material Self
Below is a related film, a collage film of sea solos, that inform and are discussed in the book, danced in England, Senegal, and Poland.
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