Adesola Akinleye Dancing Strong

“People are amazing, what we create is part of who we are, we can use our amazing lives to build, mend and communicate in a positive way.”

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Performances

The Jingle Dress Dance – a dance piece for under fives and their families
In Spring ’09 we carried out some R & D through a week long workshop, exCHANGE held at EFDSS and a short residency a school in Kent, both of which were very successful. We are very excited that State of Emergency has decided to produce the work as the Mini-Mission tour. We are creating the work this May ’10; the permerie performance will be at the Take Art’s International Children’s Festival on June 22nd 2010 with a tour of UK from September to November 2010. The piece is 50 mins duration and is touring with a 45min workshop about the themes of the performance both is suitable for under-fives and their families. There is also an educational package is available. www.stateofemergencyltd.com

Adesola joins creative team to work on Shadowball
Adesola is joining the creative team working on Shadowball, a Jazz Opera produced by Hackney Music Trust. LIBRETTO is by Mike Phillips, music by Julian Joseph and the production is directed by Jonathan Moore Performances will be at the Mermaid Theatre, London in June ‘10
www.hmdt.org.uk

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Adesola is teaching ‘Contemporary Dance’ and ‘Choreography, Context and Community’ at Canterbury Christ Church University, Folkestone Campus
Tuesdays from September ‘09 to May ‘10

Adesola is teaching workshops at Kensington and Chelsea College
Wednesdays from January ‘08 to June ‘08

Installations to dance as part of a residency through Creative Partnerships, London North in WC Harvey School. This work is in collaboration with light Artist Hansjorg Schmidt. Three installations to dance have been created within the school from January 08 to March 08.

School year 08/09: Adesola will be working with two newly formed hubs of creativity A New Direction (AND) in London and UK Centre for Carnival Arts in Luton to deliever Creative Parnterships to local primary and secondary schools. She will a Creative Agent in two Haringey Schools and one Tower Hamlets School and work as an Artist Practitioner in one Luton school. Creative Partnerships is a programme that supports the development and nurturing of creativity within education.

The Values Project working in partnership with an IT department and Creative Partnerships in a secondary school to explore schools values specificlly the core value of COURAGE.

Comenius Regio
Working with PLEY, UK and Theatre Lasala, Spain Adesola is part of an international research project investigating the learning environment of under fives, including looking at the culture in education / schools and the home life cultures of children in London and in Sabadell [Spain]. This is a project that extends over two years and involves me and a musician being linked to two children’s centres in UK and engaging in an exchange with a choreographer and musician linked to two children’s centres in Spain.

Adesola was awarded a research fellowship by Canterbury Christ Church University for a three year PhD research project, looking at embodied identity and its relationship to learning and the environment. Research takes the form of written papers, community performance and works created for Adesola's professional performance Company as well as new collaborations with artists and academics.

Adesola wrote an artical for Dance UK issue 70 about her work titled Geography of the Body. www.danceuk.org