Temitope Ajose

Dancer

Temitope Ajose is a London-based Dance Artist with an interest in myth, psychology and magic. Often playing between the sacred and absurd, Temitope’s creative process is intuitive, idiosyncratic and very human.

Temitope has staged works at venues such as The Royal Opera House, The Place, DanceXchange, RichMix, Dancebase and the Soho Joyce (New York). As a dancer, Temitope has worked with numerous artists and companies including Punchdrunk, Director Carrie Cracknell at The Gate Theatre and The National, Theo Clinkard, Protein Dance Company, Lea Anderson, Frauke Requardt and David Rosenberg, Joe Moran, Seke Chimutengwende, and Lost Dog. She performs for visual artists and makers, Florence Peake, Adelaide Cioni, Sam Williams and Megan Rooney.

Temitope also engages in movement direction (Old Vic and National Theatre) and for Artist Megan Rooney on her solo shows, at Kunsthalle Germany, Salzburg Kunstverein, and The Lyon Biennale.

Temitope continues to make her own work ‘My Name is my Own’ at The Southbank with director Jo Tyabji in collaboration with critically acclaimed writer Jay Bernard.

In the family of things Trinity Laban Dance Collective, and her solo work Lady M (at home with Lady Macbeth) commissioned by The Place, which premiered May 2023.