Adesola Akinleye is a choreographer artist-scholar and co-artistic director of DancingStrong Movement Lab. She is senior lecturer at Middlesex University, visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and research affiliate and visiting artist at Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Her work is characterized by an interest in voicing peoples lived experiences through moving portraiture. She has won awards internationally for her choreography and has published widely in the areas of dance and cultural studies.