Dance and the Digital

This page cross-references my work with digital spaces and XR.

Space+Dance+Digital

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

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

The Distance of Education

The Distance of Education

In this chapter, I use the distance-education course I wrote/co-wrote and directed/co-directed for 12.5 years as a case study. The strangeness of “teaching” performance artists through an online course was often at odds with the main body of the university. However, the use of online mediums to educate was not to replace the physicality of being together familiar to a traditional construction of university. Rather it allowed students to practice arts around the world in early career settings, such as apprenticeships in touring companies.

Akinleye, A. (2024). The distance of education. In Karen Schupp (Ed.), Futures of Performance: The Responsibilities of Performing Arts in Higher Education New York: Routledge. pp. 127-144.

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Royal Institute of British Architects film commissions 2021

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

Passing: I right my own story

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