[Gentle music]

Obviously there’s like a lot of stressful things in life and stuff, but when I feel like I’m dancing, I’m just doing the choreo and I’m not thinking about anything else.

I think it’s given me not a new identity but definitely helped me to become myself.

You know when you’re feeling emotions and you can’t quite explain what it is, but when you’re dancing it, it’s… You know, you’re getting that feeling out.

I think that when I’m dancing I oftentimes feel freed. Because you can embody the dance. You don’t have to be something or be someone, you can just dance… [Echoing] Dance… Dance… Dance… Dance…

[Upbeat music]

Hi! [Cheering]

Beautiful.

Try not to stop. And you’re coming back to what you start with.

So we build that repetition.

Doing it faster speed is to bring the arm in rather than out and in. It’s a tiny difference…

This weekend, working with the group leaders and the teachers has been really interesting. I just yesterday thought to myself, ‘I love my job.’

Being able to really connect with people who are really interested in creating, wanting to learn more about facilitating, creating. And just exploring, I guess, how I work is really exciting. [Laughing]

These are people who spend a huge amount of time with kind of its output and its support of younger people who are dancing or making work. So that idea of how we all need that. We all need those times where we can be the student again.

I hope that the teachers and group leaders are able to challenge their groups by finding new ways to think about how to create movement, how to think about space and how to think about relationships.

My advice would be to trust the process. Allow yourself to feel everything that you’re feeling whether it’s positive or negative but know that there will be something at the end and it will be incredible. And I can’t wait to see it.

[Intense music]

I don’t know if we have a name actually, but I think the idea is layers and how people go through everyday life and they meet loads of people.

Our piece is about Medusa. It’s based off the different characters and the Greek tales like Poseidon, Athena and Medusa and it’s like a different mix of all the characters.

So we were given three small sections of dance and then we had to add it into the dance we’re doing.

We always had to combine with our own moves and we had to come up with them ourselves.

We honestly would just come together and just spit absolute nonsense until eventually something would come together.

Yeah. But I think with that everyone was trying to contribute and I think that’s what’s really beautiful about this dance.

It’s really nice to have like everyone’s individualness, I guess. Like we’re all dancing each other’s moves. It’s like their way of moving.

I think working together with everyone has really boosted our friendship and teamwork. So we’ve really built connections through this project.

Seeing all these people and being like, ‘I’ve seen her in school, but I never knew that she could dance or I never knew she could do this.’ And it just opens up your perspective about the people in your school and the potential just in general.

It’s a mixture of feelings.
Yeah. It’s like I’m very excited and nice but I think I’m a bit nervous too.

I really like the journey. It’ll be so cool just being up on stage and just seeing the finished work there on a professional set.

[Clock ticking]
[Upbeat music]
[Cheering]

POV, you’re in the dance.

Right, we’re going to the stage. Not seen it from this angle. Just put your stuff down.

You can only come in where the gaps are. We mark them out with nice white tape for you.

When you’re doing your lines and your crossings from here is where you will start your crossing.

And then push up a little bit.
There we go.
Yeah, that’s right.
That’s cool.

I feel like Making Moves as a concept is about creating spaces and places and meeting different faces that make it possible for people to perform and dance and connect.

It’s been a really, really interesting project for our Young People to work on and to be working with Kloé and have that feedback. So I think for them it’s really inspiring to be able to see the journey and also how that journey isn’t always a straight path. There’s times where we really have to kind of go backwards and strip things back and play around with it.

Making Moves, I think it brings a sense of community. So we’re all making stuff together.
Okay. Go, go, go.

Yeah, I think this process has enabled all of us to see the act of creating choreography in a different light. Not as something that is daunting and this fear of judgment attached to it but actually is something that we can all celebrate as creatives and there aren’t wrongs, there’s just different ways of doing things and different ways of expressing things and it’s become a real celebration of the art form and of creativity.

I don’t think it’s too long until the performance.
Fairly soon!
It’s like 10 minutes
But I’m ready for it!
Yeah!

I’m a bit nervous but I’m also really excited because we’ve worked so hard together to create a dance.

The nerves never hit me until I’m like about to go on and then I’m like, ‘Oh my God.’
Yeah, I think as soon as the music kicks in, we’ll be fine.

[Ambient music]
[Cheering]

When I dance, I feel together. Like part of a community. Feel very accepted, feel like I can just be myself.

You got this!
When I’m on stage, I get this like energy like I want to push myself. It’s my chance to show what I can do.

I feel inspired because even like from your fingers to your toes it’s just a really good sensation throughout your body.

I’ve been so, so inspired by the whole process and it’s been amazing for me to sit back let them take the lead and see the incredible things that they can produce when it’s not so directed by us as teachers.

We’re all singing from the same hymn sheet. I mean, we really care about youth work. We care about giving young people voices and really projecting that what young people have to say whether it’s physically but also emotionally is worthy of being platformed and needs to be seen.

They have completely taken this project on themselves. I’ve guided them and I’ve helped them but essentially they’ve created all of the movement and they’ve put all of their own ideas into it. So yeah, I’ll feel really proud of them watching.

I think when I dance, it’s just a way to express yourself because you can’t always do it in words because you feel like you’re going to be judged if you say something bad. But when you are moving, because you’re moving that much it feels like you can’t be judged. Because that’s what you do, that’s your thing. And if you like it, then it’s just a great thing.

[Applause]
[Cheering]