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This will be a great discussion led by Aoife Donnelly and Kristin Trommler which Adesola will be speaking at, bringing together her work with architecture and design and the dance performance that we toured last year   'Light Steps' and 'Found' . Whitechapel Gallery is a short walk away from where Adesola went to school herself, "so it's nice to be back in the manor to talk about dance/art/design and learning!" (Adesola Akinleye) Whitechapel Gallery,  Learning Environments: A Discussion  Talk https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/learning-environments-a-discussion/ Saturday 15 June, 2pm £9.50/£7.50 Alternative, democratic, and self-lead education models and the architectural responses associated with them, are the subject of this conversation led by the architects Aoife Donnelly and Kristin Trommler. Case studies include the practices of 20 th Century radical pedagogues, from Ricardo Dalisi and KEKS to the progressive Post-war Schools move...

Pleased to announce Dr. Adesola Akinleye has been awarded a Fellowship with Theatrum Mundi.  I will be keeping a 'scrap-book of thinking' at choreographing.city .  What is it about: I feel there is a great importance to creating spaces for the wordless conversation of dance. A conversation that is between body and environment. I hope to contribute to larger discussions across subject areas. This articulating and valuing the significance of where Self begins, or ends or is continuous in environment shares inquiry with colleagues in architecture (see Pallasmaa, 2005, Rasmussen, 1959), social sciences (see Deleuze and Guattari, 1983, 1987), and geography (see Lefebvre, 2004). I hope by reaching beyond the isolating notion of ‘subject’ areas we might find shared areas of inquiry into the inter-connectedness of Place . - Adesola  photo by  Foteini Christofilopoulou   Adesola Akinleye & Bree Birr de Oliveira

" what a warm hug of a show this was.." A lovely review of ' Light Steps'  our show for early years. Performance on February 2nd 2019 at  CIRCOMEDIA.  Part of a project that is also about making a resource for Reception and Early years children to support them engaging with live dance. See below for why I make dance for young audiences... See full review  Here "When I dance, I am aware of the transaction of my emplacement: in community with that around me. Dance narrates the somatic experience of emplacement, the sense of  being a part of everywhere. Inherent in watching the professional dancers’ and musicians’ performance of ‘Light Steps’ (and other works I have made for young audiences) is the notion that dance would offer the young   audience languages where responses to the experienced are bodily – moving away from the verbal of words to the expression of the somatic. The professional dancers and   musicians model moving...