The event is free and open to the public. MIT will be observing all Covid-19 precautions, and registration is required. You can register here.

Dr. Adesola Akinleye will speak about the research she began at MIT that focuses on a new lexicon. This event serves as a follow up to the first part of her residency (Fall 2020), which resulted in a series of podcasts, called Choreographing the City.

Dr. Adesola Akinleye is a choreographer and artist-scholar. She is an Assistant Professor in the Dance Division at Texas Woman’s University. She is an Affiliate Researcher in the Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT and a Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, and a Theatrum Mundi Fellow. She began her career as a dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem Workshop Ensemble (USA) later working in UK Companies such as Green Candle and Carol Straker Dance Company. 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 architects to women in low wage employment to performance for young audiences. Her most recent monograph is part of the Society for Dance Research In Conversation series – Dance, Architecture and Engineering: Dance in Dialogue.

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Part of the Art, Culture, and Technology program's Spring 2022 Lecture Series.