Choreography

Shakespeare’s The Tempest begins with a great magical storm. This piece reimagines the storm as the work of Sycorax and other women whose absences on land is because they live in the tides of the sea.  The work draws on reflections from reading Sylvia Wynter. This is act i of the full ballet.

Act

SPLASH! is a 40 minute immersive interactive performance for young audiences and their families. It incorporates live dance and music with original artwork pieces both hung and projected as part of the immersive nature of the show. The audience follows the course of a small stream, to a river running

Premieres at Texas Woman’s University, Dance Division Black Box Theatre. This work emerged from the research project ‘Water Sources as Embodied Archives: ecosomatic dances and traditional knowledges (Teotihuacan, Mexico City and Denton)’ with Danza Chikawa and TWU IDC company. Supported

Belonging (in The Hop) was commissioned by the Hayward Gallery, Southbank as a response to Jyll Bradley’s The Hop, Summer 2022.

Concrete-Water-Flesh is a collaborative project with Helen Kindred which places bodily experiences as central to our understanding and Being-in-Place. The project combines the research interests of Adesola and Helen in the development of new physical site-specific and web-based choreographic work. Stimulated by the Place of the city and Place of the shore.

2020, 2021

As a 2020-22 Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology and Research Affiliate in the Art, Culture, and Technology program, Akinleye investigates how dance-based research and creative collaboration across disciplines can create new techniques, lexicons, and conversations within

The Future is a Common History Film and talk. Film by Jayden Ali with talk about the work in collaboration with Royal Academy of the Arts and hosted by Central Saint Martins.

London, December 2020