Laura Dajao

LauraDDances works in transposing movement to try and fit any body so there shouldn't be restrictions and boundaries when it comes to expressing oneself through the medium of dance.

Based in east London, she grew up with Hip Hop and is the style that feels most natural for her to do. But is constantly learning and exploring to do this within her own body, having in the past been restricted by movement and aesthetic - in an exclusive commercial Hip Hop world.

Foundation is key: - where movement comes from, the essence of a certain movements and stripping it down to it's core principle in order to portray authentically the understanding of the genre, style, music or individual movements to be possible to teach others.

There are many styles that she been able to dance in but wants to further explore;

African, Breakin', Krump, Dancehall, Street Dance, Locking and Tutting.

In her work she is keen to create cross-collaborative art, and the question that she is interested in at the moment is:

How do I use everyday access communication and translate it through dance?

Joining Kaos Choir and working with Chisato Minamura on Stuck in the Mud, she has developed a keen interest in how sign language can be used in dance.

Exploring the use of different dance genres to help her answer this question is an ongoing endeavour of hers  and she believes there isn't just one answer, but many and how your combine those answers will determine how interesting it will be.

This is also a part of the cross collaborative nature of the work she wishes to create in the long term, and hope to be able to work with artists who are open minded about their art to find ways of answering questions like this. She finds this both exciting and challenging and hopefully ground breaking.