Protect your Joy

‘No matter the people problems in dance, the actual sacredness of it is something I feel I need to protect, because that personal relationship to dance and your joy is so precious. All the industry problems, it’s just jargon, its just stuff compressing on top of this internal sacred connection.’

‘It took a long time after training to relearn rest, and dancing as not dancing; dancing as being very still and simple. I feel that I’ve been dancing for an imaginary world, trying to create this world for myself, playing with movement as imagery, and movement as a creation of something.’

Featuring Kassichana Okene-Jameson and Ella Pileggi
Photos and video by Imogen Mansfield