Are you interested in the connection between Architecture, Space and Performance?
Join us for Instagram live conversations hosted by choreographer and artist-scholar Dr Adesola Akinleye with BFA Members.
The BFA Dance Dialogues is an event series which was developed in collaboration with choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye.
To celebrate the book Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue), live conversations between Adesola and a series of BFA members will explore the main themes of the book in correlation to BFA member's work. BFA members include Ayanna Blair-Ford, Sarah Akigbogun, Seyi Adelekun & Umi Lovecraft BP.
The third one up is a conversation between Adesola and Sarah on Tuesday 22 June at 7pm.
They’ll discuss claiming space within the industry as a black woman, improvisation and the concepts of freedom in relation to the body and how black women feel in spaces.
Sarah Akigbogun
Multidisciplinary Practitioner including Architect & Filmmaker
Sarah Akigbogun is a (British, West African) multidisciplinary practitioner; an Architect and Filmmaker, and the current Vice Chair of Women in Architecture UK. Sarah is founder of Studio Aki London and theatre collective Appropri8, which combine art, design, performance and research to create interventions in the built environment, with a particular interest in reactivating dead urban spaces.
In 2017 Sarah directed the film She Draws : She Builds which collates the voices of 15 female
architects. Trained as an architect and engineer, Sarah has worked at Alsop Architects and Foster and Partners. Sarah also holds an MA in Acting from Central St Martins. She is currently a tutor at Canterbury School of Architecture.
@studio_aki
www.appropri8theatre.london
Adesola Akinleye
Choreographer, Artist-scholar
Dr. Adesola Akinleye is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar and choreographer.
She began her career as a dancer at the Dance Theatre of Harlem (USA) later working in UK Companies such as Green Candle, and Carol Straker Dance Co.. Over the past twenty years she has created dance works ranging from live performance that is often site-specific and involves a cross-section of the community to dance films, installations and texts. Her work is characterized by an interest in voicing people’s lived-experiences in Places through creative moving portraiture. A key aspect of her process is the artistry of opening creative practices to everyone from ballerinas to women in low wage employment to performance for young audiences. Adesola is a Research Fellow with Theatrum Mundi, visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and Research Affiliate and visiting artist at MIT.
www.adesolaakinleye.com
www.dancingstrong.com
Not to worry if you can’t make it to the live event. The video will be available on our instagram. #BFADanceDialogues