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Jannick Moth

Dance Artist

Dance

Seeing how other people and cultures think about movement and dance has helped me broaden my horizons…

Jannick Moth

My favourite performing experience was an historical project in the Laban Theatre, when I was part of a restaging of Shobana Jeyasingh’s Bruise Blood. I was lucky to perform it four times, it was such a great experience to perform it a number of times to different audiences.

Colab was a great opportunity to take something I was interested in and put it into an open platform for collaboration. There are so many things that I took from Colab, I’m not sure if I could write them all: working together, gaining knowledge about how to build a piece, learning from other disciplines, performing something that we had created together…  The Colab sharing is a really exciting time. I remember it being the first time I saw most of my classmates outside of a technique setting, and I remember being so inspired by the whole week.

Seeing how other people and cultures think about movement and dance has helped me broaden my horizons in a really quick way. Having so many different choreographic voices pushed me into places that would have been a harder to find without being around such a diverse cohort, and allowed me to really get ‘out of the box’. It’s something I feel has really enriched me not just as a dancer but as a person.

There is always something going on in London. If you want to do something, you can probably find it! I have been able to watch so many different performances, to be able to perform in a variety of unique spaces and to go to a really wide variety of classes. The dance scene here is a very exciting place.

There is a great variety of treatments at Laban Health. I have been able to try so many different health practices and to integrate them into my work in class in a very real way. The practitioners there know about dance and so can give tailored and specific advice and feedback. There are also very friendly people working there, I always enjoy saying hello to them!

One of the things I felt I was going to miss out on by coming to a conservatoire was the student experience in halls. But with the McMillan student village I was able to get that experience. It was everything I had hoped it to be. I really enjoyed being in the hive of activity and I found it was a great way to get to know the people that I was studying with, and especially to meet and live with musicians. It’s also really close to the Laban Building which was really helpful. I heard someone in the year above me managed to literally roll from his bed to his class!