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‘Hip Hop Onestyle’ Dance Course

Åsa Folkhögskola, Sweden

Aug 2024 - June 2025

● At Åsa I explored ways to document our dance/ing culture and reimagine what Hip Hop Dance librarianship could be/include.

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'Zines as/and Performance' research (2024)

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'Zines as/and Performance' research (2024)

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As a new member of the Edinburgh Zine Library, I worked as part of their team to help out at the library and their annual Edinburgh Zine Festival.

For this year's festival, I focused on the idea of zines as/and performance as a continuation of my research into body-based/ non-traditional archiving practices and developing my curiosity and knowledge of zine-making.

I contributed to a panel discussion and zine collection on zines as/and performance. Thank you to Artists; Klara Szafrańska and Hamish MacPherson for joining as panellists :)

Supported by Edinburgh Zine Library & FABRIC Space In-Kind.

March-April 2024

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Performance Art Archives and Documentation (short course), ECC Performance Art

Nov 2023

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Screenshot of Seea (Left) and myself (right) during our hybrid residency.

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This project was a hybrid (online/ in-person) artist residency at Wainsgate Dances (Hebden Bridge) and was in collaboration with fellow artist Seea Gordon.

We looked at different ways to document and archive movement using tasks that focused on timing and our other senses. Together, we co-created a few scores that we distributed through a written letter to the community of Hebden Bridge.

Thank you Wainsgate Dances for the support.

Jan 2023

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Rethinking Art Collections and Archives (short course), Node Centre

May 2023 - June 2023

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#natifahwhite

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IV, Performer, SERAFINE1369

2023 - current

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IV, Beursschouwberg (2023). Photo Credit: Mariana Machado

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'IV', SERAFINE1369

Performers: Steph McMann, Darcy Wallace, Natifah White & SERAFINE1369

Sound design: Josh Anio Grigg / light design Josh Anio Grigg & SERAFINE1369

Production support: Metal and Water

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IV, Beursschouwberg (2023). Photo Credit: Mariana Machado

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'It begins in darkness' R&D, Performer, Seke Chimutengwende

2020 - 2024

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'It begins in darkness' R&D (2021). Photo Credits: Liam Keown

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'It begins in darkness', Seke Chimutengwende

Performers: Adrienne Ming, Rose Sall Sao, Rhys Dennis, Alethia Antonia, Natifah White

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Photo Credits: Thomas Goodwin, Kinship Workshop, Dartington

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Kinship Workshop, Thinker-in-Residence

2022 - 2023

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'Factual Actual', Performer, Florence Peake

2021 - 2023

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Factual Actual, National Gallery (2021). Photo Credit: Anna Arca

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Factual Actual, Florence Peake

Performers: Temitope Ajose-Cutting, Iris Chan, Katye Coe, Rosalie Wahlfrid, Natifah White

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Factual Actual - Florence Peake - Photo Anna Arca IMG-20211218-WA0009

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Satelliser, Coworker, J Neve Harrington

2022

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'The Noise My Leave Makes' (film), Performer, Tia-Monique Uzor
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021

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'Slip Mould Slippery', Performer, Grace Nicol / Sinead O’Dwyer
June 2020 - Mar 2021

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Plue, External Eye, Elinor Lewis & Joe Garbett

July 2024 - August 2024

Nov 2023

April 2022 - May 2022

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'Navigator' for Adesola Akinleye’s Digital Archive: 'Archiving with Bare Feet’ (Part of Artist Archive, Siobhan Davies Studios)

March 2024

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Walkthrough Facilitator for Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Exposure Exhibition, Nottingham Contemporary

March 2024

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Project Artist Assistant/ Guest Contributor, Extending Dance Practice MA, London Contemporary Dance School

Sep - Oct 2020

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U.Dance Regional Events (East Midlands), Panellist, FABRIC

Feb 2023 - March 2023

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U.Dance Regional Events (East Midlands), Panellist, Dance 4
Feb 2022 - March 2022

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Obsidian, Project Assistant, Atabey Mamasita/ London Contemporary Dance School
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020

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'Slow Burning', Performer, SERAFINE1369/ Red Bull: Shy One and Victoria Sin
Sep 2019

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'Muy Serio', Performer, Atabey Mamasita
January 2019

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Masters of Sex: Feminisms, Sexuality, and the Archive (short course) Goldsmiths University
April 2022 - July 2022

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This research project focused on the archive (and its practices) and the roles they play in accessing histories. I began playing with what archiving meant both in academic/ institutional settings and the everyday space and this allowed me to expand on what an 'archival material' could be.

Supported by The Mighty Creatives/ Young Empowerment Fund

Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

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Memory Scores was a research residency that explored how the black (female) body stores histories (welcomed and un-welcomed) with fixed and pending origins.

Collaborators: Cyan Cian + Bakani Pick-Up

Supported by Dance 4 (Fabric)

October 2020

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BA Hons in Contemporary Dance (2:1) London Contemporary Dance School, London
2016 - 2019

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I am a dance artist inspired by creative processes & work that explore speculative dance futures.

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My dance practice weaves archiving, research & performance & within these spaces, I have begun intertwining ways these descriptions nourish one another, whether through supporting another artist or my explorations.

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I graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2019 & train in both hip hop* & contemporary dance styles.

*Hip hop as an umbrella term for other social/club dance styles like: house, popping, locking, waacking +++

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My research into dance & archival practice, has been selected & supported by a variety of projects such as Artist Research Residency with FABRIC (formerly Dance 4) in 2020, Young Empowerment Fund with The Mighty Creatives in 2021, Thinker-in-Residence for Kinship Workshop (2022), Wainsgate Dances Residency in 2023, Dance In Vancouver UK Delegate supported by Dance Umbrella/ FABRIC (2024) & Åsa Folkhögskola (2025).

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Although I do not have an online presence (except accidently as #natifah white on IG), I've started a digi-practice that it helping me rebuild (and restore) my confidence in the digi-space.

It’s called thisishappening and it’s a type of tri-monthly thread/ source/ diary (?) that features content (convos, collabs, readings, listenings +) that have/ are impacting my artistic practice. I will add to it as time goes on but above everything, I hope it’s a (digi) space that also doubles as a springboard for ideas, thoughts & conversations.

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As I continue to establish my dance practice, I am excited by the prospects that both archiving & dancing can bring to my research as a physical activity. I am also interested in re/imagining the spaces we expect dance, archiving or research to take place in, allowing this to connect to wider conversations around access & what- access needs need to be centred for archives to work better for different communities.