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.
The BFA Dance Dialogues is an event series which was developed in collaboration with choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye.
To celebrate the book 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.
The second one up is a conversation between Adesola and Seyi on Thursday 17 June at 7pm.
They’ll discuss being in transit, being dyslexic and neurodiversity as well as movement as a way to express yourself.
Seyi Adelekun
Artist, Architectural Designer & Creative Practitioner
Seyi Adelekun is an artist, architectural designer and creative practitioner based in London.
Seyi’s practice focuses on enhancing the social infrastructures, promoting environmental stewardship and regenerative circular economies through community co-designed placemaking. She currently works at the award-winning practice Assemble, collectively holding the role as artist-in-residence to develop a social centre for housing rights and land reform in Spitalfields. Seyi is a Black Females in Architecture Advocate who cares about designing inclusive spaces that address the inequalities prohibiting marginalised people from accessing spaces.
@seyi_adelekun
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.
www.adesolaakinleye.com
www.dancingstrong.com
Not to worry if you can’t make it to the live event. The video will be available on our instagram. #BFADanceDialogues