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Satori is about awakening. It's about looking into your self. It's about finding in essence what it takes and what you have to go through to find it. It's beautiful and it's colourful and it's magical. So everybody will take something of his own from the piece, and I will be having my own journey in the piece.
Dancing somebody else's work is much easier, because it's already there and you have to learn and make it your own. But creating it, you have to be very sensitive to life and very aware of everything that's going on.
We travelled. We looked at the walls, we looked at the graffiti. We watched the news. We are feeling what's going on in that world. We feel in life, we feel in our own experiences.
Take Me to Church is a very special piece for me, and it gave me sort of new life.
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New beginning. To dance it is very special always. I always find that something new when I dance it. It brings me bad memories, but as well I try and find the new feeling new love for dance.
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Filming Take Me to Church was very emotional, because I was going to stop dancing. In a way I had my meditation during the filming. Time to think and reflect on what will I lose and what am I leaving behind and what possibly I could have done. During the filming I realised I could not stop dancing, this is something I have to carry on doing. And finding a way to hopefully maybe change the industry that it's better for the dancers and more exciting for the audience.
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Project Polunin, I'm hoping that it can have a lot of creations. It's about creating, and I think the experience of creation was the most fun to me. And I want as many dancers and as many artists as possible to have that experience. I don't want to compete with any companies. I want to give dancers opportunity to be involved in something creative and something fun away from their everyday job. I would suggest a big institution to be more aware of what dancers are saying, and don't just stick to their own old ways of doing things.
I am more grateful for my parents, and I don't feel like I'm an angry teenager anymore. You know, you mature and you grow, and you stop blaming everybody else. You start taking you're own responsibility and your life into your own hands.
The bad boy, I mean it's a silly name.
I was in Murder on the Orient Express, and that was a magical experience meeting these heroes of mine. And unbelievable experience. And seeing Johnny Depp, who I adored when I was growing up, looking up to him. And being next to him, and giving him a hug. And just watching how he works. Acting is self-knowledge, and you have to be in the moment. Dance is more losing yourself in the moment, but acting is staying in the moment. So by learning acting, I started to learn about myself more. And going inside myself more.
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