Are you interested in the connection between Architecture, Space and Performance?
Join us for Instagram Live conversations hosted by choreographer and artist-scholar Dr Adesola Akinleye with BFA Members.
Topics include using movement as a black woman to claim space or express yourself, being in transit, making black spaces or decolonial spaces and more!
The BFA Dance Dialogues is an event series which was developed in collaboration with choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye.
Dr. Adesola Akinleye has written the book Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue) which was born from a year of exchanges of movement ideas generated in cross-practice conversations and workshops with dancers, musicians, architects and engineers.
To celebrate Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue), live conversations between Adesola and a series of BFA members will explore the main themes of the book in correlation to BFA member's work. BFA members include Ayanna Blair-Ford, Sarah Akigbogun, Seyi Adelekun & Umi Lovecraft BP.
Adesola & Ayanna
15 JUNE 7PM
On making black spaces such as the black stage
Adesola & Seyi
17 JUNE 7PM
On transit, being dyslexic & neurodiversity
Adesola & Sarah
22 JUNE 7PM
On claiming space and freedom
Adesola & Umi
24 JUNE 7PM
On decolonial space-making & knowledge exchange
Adesola Akinleye
Choreographer, Artist-scholar
Dr. Adesola Akinleye is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar and choreographer.
She began her career as a dancer at the Dance Theatre of Harlem (USA) later working in UK Companies such as Green Candle, and Carol Straker Dance Co.. Over the past twenty years she has created dance works ranging from live performance that is often site-specific and involves a cross-section of the community to dance films, installations and texts. Her work is characterized by an interest in voicing people’s lived-experiences in Places through creative moving portraiture. A key aspect of her process is the artistry of opening creative practices to everyone from ballerinas to women in low wage employment to performance for young audiences. Adesola is a Research Fellow with Theatrum Mundi, visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and Research Affiliate and visiting artist at MIT.