Temitope Ajose


Bonnie Bird Choreography Award winner (2005) Temitope Ajose Cutting has created and staged works for venues such as Royal Opera House and ROH2. She has been commissioned by The Place Prize Bloomberg, dance producer Eckhard Thiemann at Woking Dance. Her works have been performed at DanceXchange, RichMix, Dancebase in Edinburgh, Swindon Dance and the Soho Joyce (New York). 

As a dancer Temitope has worked with Punchdrunk, director Carrie Cracknell at The Gate Theatre and The National,  Theo Clinkard and Protein Dance Company (Critally acclaimed Border Tales 2014-2018 creation of En Route 2021) Darcy Wallace at the V&A, Lea Anderson, Joe Moran, Sue Maclaine and Seke Chimutengwende. Temitope also engages with movement direction (Old Vic and National Theatre). In addition to this she has been part of the performance team restaging Joan Jonas retrospective at the Tate Modern, working with choreographer and curator Nefeli Skarmea for artist Megan Rooney at the Serpentine Pavilion and now collaborates with Megan Rooney for her solo shows at Kunsthalle Germany and most recently the Lyon Bianale.

Temitope continues to make her own work, producing a work at The Southbank in collaboration with critically acclaimed writer Jay Bernard My Name is my Own 2019. and the creation of her solo work Lady M (at home with Lady Macbeth) Choreodrome 2021.

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