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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

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/

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)