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Open Classes on Zoom continue through November

    New Season of Open Classes on Zoom from October! Join Helen Kindred for guided improvisation classes every week   THURSDAY 7.30-8.15PM (GMT) FREE and open to all!     ZOOM LINKS posted each week on Instagram follow us  @dancingstrong_movement_lab_  @helenkindred

Harry Fulleylove's Associate Artist Project - Premiere

C onquering parameters: a scherzo for pandemical times  This exciting Associate Artist project has grasped summer 2020 and made art out of it, across the lock-down.  There will be a  presentation  of the work with partners London Studio  Centre.  Presented - Friday 16 October, 7pm (TBC). This will be through London Studio Centre's Instagram account.

Open Classes on Zoom!

 New Season of Open Classes on Zoom from October! Join Helen Kindred for guided improvisation classes every week   THURSDAY 7.30-8.15PM (GMT) FREE and open to all!     ZOOM LINKS posted each week on Instagram follow us  @dancingstrong_movement_lab_  @helenkindred

Silence and Stillness in conversation (Richard Sennett and Adesola Akinleye)

 Pod Cast In Conversation Richard Sennett and Adesola Akinleye  Theatrum Mundi · Silence and Stillness: In Conversation with Richard Sennett and Adesola Akinleye

Animated - Queering the Somatic feature,

Queering the Somatic In November 2019  Dr. Adesola Akinleye  and  Helen Kindred , co-Artistic Directors of DancingStrong Movement Lab and Senior Lecturers at Middlesex University London, curated a two-day symposium - Queering the Somatic: interrupting the narrative - which brought together artists, practitioners, researchers moving within the fields of dance, queer theory, feminism, narrative, and somatic practices. Here they introduce the following articles which are contributed by some of the Symposium’s speakers.  https://www.communitydance.org.uk/DB/animated-editions/summer-2020 See our editorial here:  https://www.communitydance.org.uk/DB/animated-library/queering-the-somatic?ed=44830  See Helen's article here:  https://www.communitydance.org.uk/DB/animated-library/improvisation-and-change?ed=44830 Our sincere thanks to all the contributors to this edition of Animated: Vicki Igbokwe, Melanie Precious, Sarah Boulton and Adele Wragg, Dr Mark Edward, Dr Adseola Akinleye,

International Community

In HOTFOOT Online Dr Adesola Akinleye shares her experience at The International Association of Blacks in Dance 32nd International Conference and the joys of international dance communities! 🤩 https://bit.ly/HOTFOOTSpring2020InternationalCommunity

Zooming into classes

Jojo working on DancingStrong Zoom and Skype rehearsals and classes We have been enjoying developing ways to dance together over the internet.

Whipers- Helen Kidred

Helen Kindred work Whispers. Her area of exploration was focused on thoughts on how she could better know her practice of Bartenieff Fundamentals and improvisation. She explains how " I thought I'd develop my understanding of both areas, the relationship between them, be able to argue a case for rigor and structure underpinning improvised dance practice. I have done this, but this journey has been so so much more than this, more than I could ever have imagined.Tonight I present the three improvised performance works that have grown through my research, dancing the in-between-ness with the dear artists, friends, collaborators that have been with me on this journey, holding and sharing space for me to breathe, to process, to be, to live and to love with truth, generosity and honesty."

Phase Two: Choreographing the City Adesola Akinleye fellowship with Theatrum Mundi

Choreographing the City Akinleye Research Fellowship: phase two Dr. Adesola Akinleye (DSML Director) and Theatrum Mundi have been working together through the project called Choreographing the City: as/at the city limits. In 2019 Adesola completed the first phase of Research Fellowship with Theatre Mundi. 2020 see the beginning of Phase Two.  Theatrum Mundi helps to expand the crafts of city-making through collaboration between artists and urbanists.  About the project: Due to rapid current pressures such as globalisation, climate change, and urbanisation, there are ongoing growing pressures on our current infrastructures in cities. Therefore, we  need radical approaches to engineering that challenge our assumptions of what can be achieved...d ance can potentially provide us with some answers. Choreography and engineering design are both creative processes that are taught formally, developed through practice and experience, have known outputs, physical and economic con

Concrete and Ink

Adesola Will be speaking/dancing as part of Concrete and Ink. She will be playing with notions of time and body, environment... 13 February 2020 – 15 February 2020 Place Whitechapel Gallery City London Project Enactments Format Panel Discussion , Screening With Marta Michalowska Justinien Tribillon Jasmina Cibic Alison Irvine Christopher Ian Smith Kate Harding Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou Gwenaëlle d'Aboville Nina Leger Océane Ragoucy Jodie Azhar Crystal Bennes Corina Angheloiu Meneesha Kellay Julian Baggini Sophie Mackintosh Gruia Bădescu https://theatrum-mundi.org/programme/concrete-ink/

2009- 2019: DancingStrong now established as a registered CIC - DancingStrong Movement Lab CIC

DancingStrong has just completed its 10th year. Today also marks the celebration of our recent success in achieving a new status for our company. The company is now a registered CIC (Community Interest Company)  and will now officially be called- DancingStrong Movement Lab CIC (previously named - DancingStrong) Co- Directors: Adesola Akinleye (left) and Helen Kindred (right)

How do we practice together? Reflection "On Attention" by Adesola Akinleye

Adesola recently wrote a blog post responding to a 2-day workshop On Attention Ten philosophers and ten dancers walk into a room in London… Curated by Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca and Heni Hale, on November 29th and 30th 2019, we came together at ID to share a series of workshops and discussions that focused around the notion of attention: ‘ On Attention: A Performance Philosophy Workshop ’ . The event resonated with and addressed how we pay attention to each other – how do we share practices and across practices? How do interdisciplinary approaches make spaces for the multiple threads that different practices offer an idea? For me, this exploration of building frameworks for how ‘we’ come together, (how we pay attention to each other meaningfully) is important work. On a macro, global level, it reflects the 21st century’s call to understand and find equality in the process of coming together that is globalisation. On a micro, practice level, it is part of the problem-solving proce

Performance at The Place 29th Jan 2020 7pm

DancingStrong Movement Lab members Helen Kindred and Maga Judd are performing a work at Resolutions 2020.

Collective Strategies for Diasporan Women in Dance

Join us at the annual The International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference. Hosted by Joan Myer Brown/ Philadanco (Philadelphia Dance Company) in Philadelphia, PA. We will have our roundtable discussion entitled "Collective Strategies for Diasporan Women in Dance" on Saturday, January 18th, 2020 from 2:00-4:00 pm EST The panel in includes: Brenda Dixon Gottschild Ph.D. (Moderator), Quanice G. Floyd, Adesola Akinleye Ph.D., Maria Bauman-Morales, Pawlet Brookes, and S Ama Wray Ph.D. To sign up for the conference, please check out IABD Association website at www.iabdassociation.org