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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...

May 16 th    Middlesex University 3 rd year performance -  Arts Depot  https://www.artsdepot.co.uk/dance/mdx-dances-0 May 17 th   Beyond Buildings: performance and architecture -  Royal Academy of Art  https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/beyond-buildings-performance-as-architecture-awards-week-talk June 15 th   Learning Environments -  Whitechapel Art Gallery https://www.whitechapelgallery.org July 5 th   Africa Writes: our bodies speak poetry - The British Library http://africawrites.org/uncategorized/our-bodies-speak-poetry-meet-the-poets/ More detail: May 16 th    Middlesex University 3 rd year performance - Arts Depot  https://www.artsdepot.co.uk/dance/mdx-dances-0   Middlesex University graduating Dance students return for their  final  performance of the year. The programme includes repertory by Ross McKim re-staged by Sian Hopkins, plus new works created by Adesola Akin...

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

April 20th we will be sharing the exploration and ideas of our first of two dance residencies this year with Theatrum Mundi about how the city is engineered to moves, Urban design, and dancing architecture.  April 20th 2019 workshop will be at the Place [Studio 3] Book here  11.00 - 13.00 session 14.00 - 16.00 session Where:  The Place, 17 Duke's Road, London WC1H 9PY  - Studio 3 *note: Please could you arrive to The Place via the Flaxman Terrace entrance. When:  AM workshop 11am to 1pm  PM workshop 2pm to 4pm             * you are welcome to stay for both or just attend one. What: Movement warm-up, Discussion, movement exploration , sharing of dance created during residency week.  (Bring comfortable clothes that you can move in)

Workshop led by Dr Adesola Akinleye at  Per/forming Futures - curated by Artistic Doctorates in Europe :  Geography of the Body: Choreo-thinking, physical equations, and a language of choreography Per/Forming Futures launches ADiE’s two most recent publications: Adesola has a chapter in the second Researching in/as Motion A Resource Collection. Reconsidering Research and Supervision as Creative Embodied Creative Practice: Reflections from the Field www.artisticdoctorates.com Researching (in/as) Motion A Resource Collection nivel.teak.fi/adie/ This workshop will playfully explore on the moving body (choreography) as a mode of ‘analysis': thinking in the act of doing. We will use practical movement-based explorations as a process of unpicking embodied metaphor in everyday language (and t herefore in everyday constructs of ‘things’). The goal of the workshop is to share techniques for blurring the divide between theoretical and the physical of doing. A fun, explorator...

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

February 9th  I am ran a triip workshop  thinking about Heritage and Dance. As dancers what do we see as our dance heritage, lineage? Some dance forms feel like 'home' to individual dancers. A form of movement where there is a sense of authentic voice, where the dancer feels the technique itself paves a language they can express there inner sensations with. As a choreographer I look to find a place between the dancers movement home (their voice) and my own from which the movement and the choreographic decision making is coming from. This between space is the manifestation of the dance: a conversation with Place, time, history, present, and past in body. I am thinking about ballet (one of the movement languages I feel a home in) and how it is made a heritage site. A heritage site my voice (as a Black Ballet dancer) is not always present in. What do the other dancers in the workshop feel about their dance 'homes' - I am interested in thinking about using heritage as...