This web-site, Narrating Spaces is a reflecting point of documentation for a number of collaborative dance-arts projects with choreographer Adesola Akinleye, and Helen Kindred, Barry Lewis, Emil Charlaff and Anton Califano. These projects weave together collaborations, community arts outreach and discussion about social justice, political policy, film, and professional dance practice. The projects uses dance (physical languages) and film (visual languages) in an attempt to take the body and bodily experience seriously when we talk about our histories, hopes, memories and expectations. When we 'talk' about your lived experiences.
The web-site shares some of the creative processes of community workshops, professional dance choreography and film responses, and film and photo documentation. Ultimately we hope to share the lived experience of people through multiple languages (not just verbal) within the communities that have participated and helped shape the projects.
[A reflection of this creative process of sharing stories through movement and words is published in Adesola's recent book chapter ‘Her life in movement: reflections on embodiment as a methodology’ in Researching Embodied Sport: exploring movement cultures edited by I. Wellard, Rutledge (2016). ]
The web-site shares some of the creative processes of community workshops, professional dance choreography and film responses, and film and photo documentation. Ultimately we hope to share the lived experience of people through multiple languages (not just verbal) within the communities that have participated and helped shape the projects.
[A reflection of this creative process of sharing stories through movement and words is published in Adesola's recent book chapter ‘Her life in movement: reflections on embodiment as a methodology’ in Researching Embodied Sport: exploring movement cultures edited by I. Wellard, Rutledge (2016). ]