Monique Jonas is still only at the beginning of her dance career and she’s already worked with Rambert Dance, Kim Brandstrup, New Adventures and Richard Alston Dance Company. Not only that, but she’s also started her own company-- Jona Dance Company .
She talks to Emma Lister about how aged 6 a twist of fate introduced her to dance, the frustrations that led her to start her own company, as well as her work on the Young King music video and the creation of her newly commissioned piece for Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Film, Checkmate.
JONA DANCE www.monique-jonadance.com
INSTA: @jona_dance_company
INSTA: @mon_jonas
Watch the Young King video here!
Watch Checkmate, for Adventures in Film here!
The last three questions...
PIECE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
School trip to see Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform: Alvin Ailey’s Revelations
PIECE THAT DIDN’T LOVE BUT HAS VALUE
Just Us Dance Theatre’s Born to Manifest
NOMINATE AN ARTIST FOR US TO CHECK OUT
Rhys Dennis and Waddah Sinada‘s dance company: FUBUNATION
www.fubunation.org
This season of MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERS has been made possible by grants from the Norfolk Arts Project Fund and using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.