The book explore how dance practices can be embodied through relationships with the environment. The book begins with discussing somatic experiences of being in Place; including discussing a sense of belonging to the environment through responsive movement. The second part offers infrastructures (scores) for generative movement drawn from transdisciplinary workshops. The book presents text, poetic prose, and image.

Dancing Place: Scores of the City, Scores of the Shore reveals the collaborative choreographic making process as a way of being in the world. In the book the authors story their experiences of working with scores as ways of noticing, sensing and bringing focus to moments within the assemblage of environments of which we are a part.

Adesola Akinleye is an Associate Professor of Dance at Texas Woman's University. Helen Kindred is a Director of Studies at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. They are choreographers, dance artist-scholars, and co-directors of DancingStrong Movement Lab. They contribute to dance education and scholarship through publication, community activity, and performance making internationally.