For me, music is the source of dance. If I open myself to it with all my senses and give myself to it, it hits my body with full force and moves it. When I listen to music with my eyes closed, I see and feel myself dancing to it. I see my movements, the clothes I am wearing, the place I am in. The images before my inner eyes arise in me through the music. Why do these images look the way they do? I don’t know, however, it is a state where everything that arises feels right, just as it is.
When the music kicks, I feel and see what you can now feel and see. Close your eyes, let it hit you – and if you feel like it – move! Feels good, doesn’t it?

Aminata Reuß is a contemporary dancer and choreographer based in Berlin. During her school years she completed a three-year preliminary dance training course at Tanzfabrik Würzburg. In 2021 and 2022 she completed the Basis Program and the Dance Program at the Motion*s dance school in Berlin. She also works as a circus educator at Circus Blamage and is a member of the drag queen group ‘Hayzel Butt & her Nuts’. For Aminata, dance is a way of expression and a method of mindfulness, as well as a means of imparting knowledge and a form of activism.

[Source: ada-studio.de]

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