‘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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Latest News: I am excited that my third monograph, Dancing Place: Scores of the City, Scores of the Shore, co-written with Helen Kindred, will be published in February 2026. This is book 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 with/in world around.
‘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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