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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."

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 an...

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

July 5 th Africa Writes: our bodies speak poetry -The British Library http://africawrites.org/uncategorized/our-bodies-speak-poetry-meet-the-poets/ Our Bodies Speak Poetry , our first headline event is set to be an exciting evening filled with awe-inspiring storytelling, and a poetical exploration into our relationship with the (physical, political, and fantastical) body.  The evening will open with a dance piece by Adesola Akinleye, accompanied by music curated by BORN:FREE, one of London’s leading platforms for African and Afro-Diasporic poetry and writing. Our MC, Jessica Horn, will share some of her own work, engaging in conversation with us, and the poets, discussing themes surrounding poetry and the body.  Photo Credit F Christofilopoulou

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...

https://woodforgood.com/index/woodfest-reading/urban-room-hybrid-practices 12–2pm Dialogue I: Movement-Lab What is the relationship between choreographic movement and architectural design? What if we designed a building on the basis of a dance score? How do you experience space around you on a daily basis? Led by choreographer Adesola Akinleye and movement director ,  Struan Leslie, this interactive workshop will invite us to use movement and choreography to explore our relationship with spatial architectures in action. 2:30–4:30pm Dialogue II: Inter-disciplinary Lab What happens when we use different practices to explore one set of questions? How can we change habits of interacting and of thinking? Thinking through practices of movement, design, and theory we will consider different and interlocking approaches to the spaces around us and how we inhabit them. A hands-on dialogue with conversations from guest speakers: Erect Architecture, Invisible Studio, Susanna Claus...

Running in parallel to the discussion will be a movement-based discussion workshop for children aged 7 - 11.  Led by  Adesola Akinleye  the children will use choreography to explore the same themes, looking at their ideal learning spaces Architecture and the Responsive Body in Children's Education Panel Discussion with Siobhan Davies, Neil Pinder and Sarah Wigglesworth Join us in our RIBA award-winning studios for a discussion considering the impact that education spaces have on learning, the body and movement How is the privatisation of school spaces impacting on young people’s learning and creatives responses? How does the lack of outdoor space and the pressure on indoor space in schools impact on development and learning? How does an architect include the perspective of a dance artist and choreographer to create an educational space that stimulates creative responses?   These ar...

Royal Academy of Art: Join us for a panel discussion looking at the performative side of architecture – learn more about how an active arts practice can develop and drive spatial ideas. Adesola will be exploring her on-going work on how to share ideas about embodiment without just talking about it.. " I'll have a side of choreography with that, please "! https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/beyond-buildings-performance-as-architecture-awards-week-talk