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.