Dance could be anything, because you can do anything.
And it can be called dance.
My name is Tim Kassadin, and I am a choreographer.
Oh, am I now? I'm a choreographer.
Yeah, maybe I'll just say that.
When I was four, I was taken to the cinema to see the Jungle Book.
And I was kicked out of the cinema because I wouldn't stop dancing.
Dance is a language. I think the nice thing about dance is it's an international language.
Different people in different cultures will interpret it in a certain way.
And probably the same way.
The dance you made was an idea to choreograph a dance
for people who had never danced before.
I would speak to members of the public
and get them to give me dance moves.
Hello, my name is Tim. I'm a professional dancer,
and I'm doing a performance right now for a hit called The Dance We Made.
And in this show, I'm collecting dance moves from people.
I wondered if you had the dance move that you wanted to give me.
I wasn't going to teach them any steps.
I wasn't going to get them to do certain things,
and I was going to find ways to make them create their own movements.
So this is the stage. I'm your dancer.
How do I kind of come in, or am I there already?
How does this whole thing begin?
Put your head up. Yeah, put my head up.
They usually say, I can't dance, but my friend can.
So they usually throw their friend under the bus.
And I perform that dance in the location wherever it is collected.
So I like that you are walking to start off with.
It takes about, probably between 8 and 16,
people's ideas to make a dance.
So I could be back much, much smaller, and it's put too long on its head.
Ah, so can I make a dialogue for a dance?
And then that gets people to use their imagination,
and I really like it when people can get carried away with that
and say, oh, I never thought about that.
Yeah, I totally have this and this and this.
I've been training up local dance artists to do what I do.
We all speak to local people, and instead of going out into the world,
we will bring them into the studio so they get to see how we work.
I was describing things about my office.
He was moving far freer and felt myself doing the same.
I was just amazed by the kind of, I guess, untapped creative potential
that people who maybe don't feel that they're creative
or that they don't feel they have an awareness of dance that actually has.
It sounded really cool, like, interesting, different.
It wasn't too much stress, yeah.
It was a nice little put together of our lives.
Yeah, he brightened up the day a bit.
I kind of soon realised that people's moods were changing.
I might talk to someone in the street and they'll be in a really grumpy mood
after this little interaction that will walk away
and have a smile on their face,
and then I thought, this is actually fundamentally what it's about.
It is this joy in connecting people to this joy of dance.
Dance for me is a really joyful thing,
and if you can share that with someone and change their day positively
and give them a joyful experience, then that's what it's all about.
Dance for me is a joy in connecting people to this joy of dance.
