Welcome to a quick overview of some current works.
Featured Bodies
Sycorax’s Tempest
Latest News: In January 2026, developed trios and duets from my ballet Sycorax’s Tempest with Royal Ballet Upper School, UK, as part of a Keynote I am giving there on March 22nd, 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: is a short video the Royal Ballet School made of our rehearsal processes.
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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
City Dances: What the city reveals using dance as a method, in Peer-Review Journal RUUKKU (exposition)
Dancing Place: scores of the city, scores of the shore (book)
Latest News: April 2026, my exposition article City Dances: What the city reveals using dance as a method, has been published in RUUKKU Taiteellisen tutkimuksen kausijulkaisu
Studies in Artistic Research, Tidskrift för konstnärlig forskning.
February 2026; my co-authored book with Helen Kindred was published, Dancing Place: scores of the city, scores of the shore
‘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. They were danced on shores in England, Senegal, and Poland.