dance and movement came into my life who
seemed by my family dance really
I think dance movement is very highly
structured a lock-in in Gambian and
Senegalese culture say yeah Paula it's
just like embedded it in my DNA as a
designer it dictates a lot of my kind of
design process style is also integral to
me but movement is a way of life yeah I
think I expressed my inner self rew
Jones yeah it comes out when I turned
everything in my mind come occurs when
I'm dancing I'm looking about anything I
had quite a troublesome childhood and I
had a really bad stutter when I was a
kid and it was suggested to me that I
did drama and then through that I found
that I was kind of empowered and I felt
like I could express myself much more
through movement and dance being a
modern man in the 21st century is just
being at one and being honest with
yourself being in touch with your
emotions
my friend passed away last year he was a
great dancer this energy is definitely
living with me when I'm dancing so
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it's probably that first class I took
has been mild is hungry thirty other
girls and I was the only boy dancers
often trivialized in fashion as kind of
object of aesthetics there's less fall
into what the moving body actually means
I enjoyed subversion in my identity as
part of my journey dance provided a
space for me to find liberation and
encouraged self-expression my mind and
body I suppose for me is quite separate
a I can dance without necessarily
thinking about the dance
about well where you're in a bubble you
can just let free and just dance
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I'd like to create a space where
everybody can come together and express
their movement together
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