Adesola Akinleye

Dr Adesola Akinleye (she/they) is a choreographer, artist-scholar and co-artistic director of DancingStrong Movement Lab. Adesola is an assistant professor in the Division of Dance at Texas Woman’s University. Adesola has been an affiliate researcer at Arts, Culture and Technology, MIT, a visiting artist at Center for Art, Science and Technology, MIT, and a Theatrum Mundi Fellow. Adesola’s career began as a dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem Workshop Ensemble (United States) later working in UK companies such as Green Candle and Carol Straker Dance Company. Over the past twenty years Adesola has created dance works ranging from live performance that is often site-specific and involves a sense of community to dance films, installations and texts. Adesola’s work could be described as interested in noticing/honouring lived experiences of places through creative moving portraiture.

Contact: Texas Woman’s University, 304 Administration Dr., Denton, TX 76204, USA.