This page cross-references my work with digital spaces and XR.
Space+Dance+Digital
Space+Dance+Digital (S+D2) is a dance project creating choreography accessed through the immersive digital platform of Augmented Reality (AR). AR allows the dance performance to be experienced, shared, and responded to through people digitally coming together across geographic, political, language,
IMMERSED in Contemporary Dance, MIT
In the Immersion Lab, Dr. Akinleye has been tracking movement in space without capturing the dancer’s body shape. This creates an artwork of ‘pure movement’ without many of the social and political constructs that seeing the body that is producing the movement would impose on the meaning
Episode 137 | Dance & Augmented Reality: Dr. Adesola Akinleye, DancingStrong Movement Lab
kNOwBOX Pod Cast (Episode 137)
kNOwBOX dance is a female-founded digital dance company co-created in 2018 by Martheya Nygaard and YeaJean Choi.
In this episode, Dr. Adesola Akinleye, an interdisciplinary dancer and choreographer artist-scholar, joins Martheya to talk about Dance and
Archiving with Bare Feet: Truth & Transparency (2024 digital archive)
Archiving with Bare Feet
This is a digital archive that documents the choreographic process, Climbing with Bare Feet, and the 2007 performance that came from it: Truth & Transparency. Commissioned by Siobhan Davies Studios.
Truth & Transparency is a choreography for two performers
The Distance of Education
I contribute Chapter 10 in Futures of Performance: The Responsibility of Performing Arts in Higher Education, edited by Karen Schupp.
The 2020/21 COVID-19 pandemic wrenched arts education onto the Zoom screen, but after my 12 years of teaching online with performance arts students, I suggest
Royal Institute of British Architects film commissions 2021
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has commissioned the artist, scholar and choreographer Adesola Akinleye to create a series of new video artworks inspired by the work of Sir David Adjaye OBE as part of the 2021 Royal Gold Medal celebrations.
May 2021
Dancing the Digital Age: a survey of the new technologies in the choreographic process
Peer Reviewed Journal
Passing: I right my own story
In this work, I used digital tools in the choreographic process and in its performance. This continues four years of my use of incorporated modified projections including through the use of the Isadora Program. This performance was a restaging at Middlesex University or the original work I created