Biography Passing 2 - The Price Of A Ticket

Biography is a platform that recognises and celebrates the work of experienced dance practitioners. This year features a new commission from Adesola Akinleye.

Adesola is the artistic director of DancingStrong, an umbrella organisation encompassing art, education, performance and choreography, having begun her professional career as a dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Adesola’s new work Passing (2): the price of a ticket attempts to explore the notion of a movement biography, using dance and projected light to trace the biographical experience of an artist identifying as a 'Black Dancer’.

The work questions the projection of identity and the transient nature of 'Self’. If identity is transient and sense of self held in the transaction (relationships and rhythms) of ‘now’, how do we pass each other on the journey of life? How do we write our own and each other’s narratives?

This event will also celebrate the launch of Blurring Boundaries: Urban Street meets Contemporary Dance, with an introduction by contributor ‘Funmi Adewole.

The publication gives a voice to dance practitioners and university based researchers as they discuss the political and social origins of Urban Street dance, and embrace the global developments in this sector which are leading to the diversity of current dance styles.