Welcome to a quick overview of some current works.
Featured Bodies
Sycorax’s Tempest
Latest News: In January 2026, I will be developing trios and duets from my ballet Sycorax’s Tempest with Royal Ballet Upper School, UK, as part of a Keynote I am giving there in March 2026 at the Royal Ballet School’s centennial celebrations.
Sycorax’s Tempest reimagines Shakespeare’s The Tempest through the eyes of Sycorax, drawing on the concepts of Sylvia Wynter. No longer an unseen figure, Sycorax becomes the island’s sovereign soul, rising from the sea to shape the fate of her child, Caliban, and free the island: themes of reconciliation.
Below: excerpts from Act I: Storm Tides, with dancers from Texas Christian University, where I first devised Act I. Act II was devised at the University of Utah earlier this year.
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Featured Sites
Space+Dance+Digital (S+D2)
Latest News: Dance for digital sites, AR choreography. I am beginning a collaboration with children’s hospitals and Invincikids to bring the Space+Dance+Digital (S+D²) project as a resource for outpatients. S+D² is a dance project that creates choreography experienced through Augmented Reality (AR), allowing young people to explore dance as an immersive and interactive.
Below: a short film introducing the making of the first AR choreographies. These first performance works have gone on to lead the way for further works and further refining of the user/audience experience.
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Featured Words
Dancing Place: scores of the city, scores of the shore
Latest News: I am excited that my third monograph, Dancing Place: Scores of the City, Scores of the Shore, co-written with Helen Kindred, will be published in February 2026. The book comes from the belief that dance reveals how movement, place, and community are always co-created: ‘I am because we are’ ‘we are all related’.
‘This is a beautiful book! Akinleye and Kindred articulate a trans-corporeal practice of site-specific dance, inviting us to imagine new worlds where cities and seashores are danced as modes of connection and community. …’- Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Nature, Science, Environment and the Material Self
Below: a collage film of sea solos, that inform and are discussed in the book, among many other site=specific events. They were danced on shores in England, Senegal, and Poland.