ResDance Series 4: Episode 7: Conversations in Dance of the African Diaspora with Funmi Adewole In this episode, Funmi shares insight into her background in media, education and the arts and her performing experiences in various context and settings, across dance and theatre. Through reflecting upon the ways in which she works in an interdisciplinary or cross-sectorial focus, she explores the role storytelling has in her practice and the importance of context in relation to conversation and discourse. Funmi explores her current research interests and encourages the need for greater conversations in Dance of the African Diaspora concerning embodied cognition, critical hybridity and creativity and somatics. 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 VC2020 lecturer in the Dance Department at the same university. Her focus is teaching and research. She is interested in PhD students with similar interests to her own. Academia Link: Funmi Adewole |DeMontfort University Leicester - Academia.edu   Contact details: Email: [email protected]  Twitter: @funmiadewoleE Website: funmiadewoleelliott.com   Other details: Kauma Arts: @kaumaArts   Pan-African Creative Exchange:  https://www.facebook.com/Pacebloem   Please share this episode with students, educators, practitioners, performers, and interdisciplinary researchers curious to learn more about dance research in action.