Reflections

A blog for sharing and airing ideas, thoughts, works in progress, contemplations, considerations and speculations…

SPLASH! UK Tour press release

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

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

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

Ivor Guest Research Grant Recipient 2022 Society For Dance Research

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

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)

‘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

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

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…