SPLASH! UK Tour press release
So excited that SPLASH! is touring the UK with the support of ACE funding. We have Fall dates including Birmingham, Oxford, and London then in the Spring you can see SPLASH! in Leeds, Bristol, and Kent. Lots of great performances and workshops. (We also have an exhibit of the paintings, drawings,
Black British Ballet project
So excited to see this project that Dr Sandie Bourne has been working on with her team for a number of years. Their website is launched. It has interviews with lots of dancers, many old friends and colleagues.
Here is the link
SPLASH! R&D
We have just finished final R&D for DancingStrong Movement Lab’s Gallery interactive work for young audiences – SPLASH!. We were able to finish the work and have some performances with support from an Arts Council Grant. It has been really fun making SPLASH! which draw on all our
Archiving with Bare Feet: archiving the performance work ‘Truth & Transparency’ – Siobhan Davies Studios
This project involves me archiving a work I created in 2007. It is part of a programme designed by Siobhan Davies Studios that explores archiving, whose work is archived and how we archive dance. I will be archiving ‘Truth & Transparency’ (2007) is a performance work for three: two performers
Ivor Guest Research Grant Recipient 2022 Society For Dance Research
I was so honoured to be a recipient of the Ivor Guest Research Grant from the Society for Dance Research grant in 2022. It allowed me to do some pilot choreographic studies at the Immersion Lab. MIT towards the Space+Dance+Digital (S+D2) Augmented Reality (AR) project that is in development. I
PILOT III – Rights, Care and Future
I really enjoyed workshopping and discussing with members of PILOT last month. PILOT is an online course for artists and creative people to pursue arts and learning differently, through issues of rights, care and future. Now in its third year, PILOT is an intergenerational learning space for collective
‘Altogether’ podcast recording (Nov 22)
‘This year, the 4th Cohort of New Architecture Writers, hosted a live broadcast event inspired by pirate radio, a radical part of multicultural London, exploring spatial injustice and environmental racism. In this segment, New Architecture Writer Mahika Gautam speaks to Dr Adesola Akinleye about
reflection on attention
Ten philosophers and ten dancers walk into a room in London…
Curated by Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca and Heni Hale, on November 29th and 30th 2019, we came together at ID to share a series of workshops and discussions that focused around the notion of attention: ‘On Attention: A Performance
first thoughts
Welcome to Reflections: my space for ideas, thoughts, works in progress – a blog for sharing and airing general and/or specific contemplations, considerations and speculations…