ADELEYE TAIWO

Originally from Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, Adeleye Taiwo started his dance training in Lagos State, at the Society for the Performing Arts in Nigeria. He moved back to Ibadan to establish his dance company immediately after he completed his training. He pioneered numerous dance projects and productions such as DanceAids, a dance production in commemoration of World Aids Day in 2011 and 2012 and DanceAbled, the first Mixed-Ability Dance initiative in Nigeria, in which he created and presented his work HOME, a non-disabled and people living with disabilties dance in 2014; ArtsAbled; an initiative providing arts education for people living with disabilities and its first project, Special Arts Festival, in 2014. He also established iAffect Network, a community development initiative providing free dance training to children, in his personally funded community center.  He moved to New York in 2015 to study Laban Movement Analysis, and presently studying dance in Maryland, USA.