Narratives in Black British Dance

Adesola Akinleye is Senior Dance Lecturer at Middlesex University, UK. She is a practice-based scholar and choreographer, living transnationally and writing and creating performance work internationally.

• 1. Narratives in Black British Dance – An Introduction.- 2. “I don’t do Black-dance, I am a Black dancer”; Namron.- 3. Dance Britannia: the impact of global shifts on dance in Britain; Christy Adair and Ramsay Burt.- 4. Negotiating African Diasporic identity in Dance: Brown Bodies Creating and Existing in the British Dance Industry; Tia-Monique Uzor.- 5. Tracing the evolution of black representation in ballet and the impact on black British dancers today; Sandie Bourne.- 6. In-the-betweeness: Decolonising and re-inhabiting our dancing; Adesola Akinleye and Helen Kindred.- 7. Trails of Ado: Kokuma’s Cultural Self-Defense; Thea Barnes.- 8. Moving tu Balance: An African Holistic Dance as a vehicle for personal development from a Black British perspective; Sandra Golding.- 9. ‘Why I am not a fan of the Lion King: Ethically-informed Approaches to the Teaching and Learning of South African Dance Forms in Higher Education in the United Kingdom; Sarahleigh Castelyn.- 10. Performativity of Body Painting: Symbolic Ritual as Diasporic Identity; Chikukwango Cuxima-Zwa.- 11. Dancehall: a Continuity of Spiritual, Corporeal Practice in Jamaican Dance; H Patten.- 12. Our Ethiopian Connection: Embodied Ethiopian Culture as a tool in Urban-Contemporary Choreography; RAS Mikey (Michael) Courtney.- 13. Reflections: Snapshots of dancing home, 1985, 2010 and 2012; Hopal Romans.- 14. Battling Under Britannia’s Shadow: UK Jazz Dancing in the 1970s and ‘80s; Jane Carr.- 15. Caribfunk Technique: A new feminist/ womanist futuristic technology in Black dance studies in Higher Education; A’Keitha Carey.- 16. More Similarities than Differences: Searching for New Pathways; Beverley Glean & Rosie Lehan.- 17. Epistemology of the weekend: Youth dance theatre; Hopal Romans, Adesola Akinleye, & Michael Joseph.- 18. Transatlantic Voyages: Then and Now; Anita Gonzalez.