NICK
Why did I want to dance? I think to get a real understanding of my body. To find connections and communication that I can’t find in written and sometimes verbal form as well. And it’s kind of given me a freedom in my body and a way of understanding my mind and body. And also away of communicating and it’s fun and it makes me feel good.
SOPHIE
Acting is heartbreak. You go into it with a buzz of feeling, maybe, what if? And my motto is, if you don’t try you don’t know. I might get my heart broken, but everybody falls in love again.
STACEY
Once you find something for me in life that can take a hold of and you can devote yourself to it 100% it gives you something to live for. I wake up every morning and I get out of bed, I come and dance, I go home I’m still dancing. I work at weekends, I?m dancing. You know, it’s my life. I couldn’t see myself doing any other profession.
AIDAN
I just love being with a bunch of really intensely creative young people. Whose energy is contagious and who are inspiring to be around.
IRA
I get so much out of dance and the most buzz I get is being on stage and performing.
STACY
If people you know, with a disability wanna pursue a career in performing arts then just go for it .
NICK
Go for it. Really. If you have that passion inside, really, it’s worth it.
ELLIE
No matter you have, you have got the passion to be able to do something and to do it well. And it’s up to you whether or not you want to change that passion into a knowledge, or whether you forever want to keep it kind of locked away in a box.
NADIA
The best advice you could ever give some one is just to follow a dream that they’ve had. It shouldn’t matter what you look like. You will always surprise yourself and you will always surprise others by just being who you are.
SOPHIE
I’m not na?ve. I do know that if you Are going out there, looking for work you are going to be cast by what people see you as. And obviously with these (gestures her ears) I’m going to be seen as a deaf actress. But my sole aim is to fight that. I do not want to be the deaf actress. It’s not me being ashamed of my deafness, it’s me saying “OK I’m deaf. Now can I be an actress?”