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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...

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...

" 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...