Funmi Adewole

Funmi Adewole has a background in media, education, arts development  and performance. She started out as a media practitioner in Nigeria and  moved into performance on relocating to England in 1994. For several  years she toured with Physical/Visual theatre and African dance drama  companies. Her credits include performances with Ritual Arts, Horse and  Bamboo Mask and Puppetry Company, Artistes-in-Exile, Adzido Pan-African  Dance Ensemble, Mushango African dance and Music Company and the  Chomondeleys contemporary dance company. She was chair of Association of  Dance of the African Diaspora in Britain (ADAD) from 2005 to 2007. In  this role she initiated and directed the ADAD Heritage project, which  contributed to the documentation of black-led dance companies and  choreographers in England between the 1930s and 1990s. She continues to  perform as a storyteller. As a dramaturge she works mainly with makers  who are interdisciplinary or cross-sectorial in focus. She completed a  PhD in Dance Studies at De Montfort University Leicester in 2017. Her  thesis is entitled ‘British dance and the African Diaspora: The  Discourses of Theatrical dance and the art of choreography – 1985 to  2005’. She is now a lecturer in the Dance Department at the same  university.