Monique Jonas ⎢ Dancer/Choreographer

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.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 EVERYTHINGSchool trip to see Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform: Alvin Ailey’s Revelations PIECE THAT DIDN’T LOVE BUT HAS VALUEJust Us Dance Theatre’s Born to Manifest NOMINATE AN ARTIST FOR US TO CHECK OUTRhys Dennis and Waddah Sinada‘s dance company: FUBUNATIONwww.fubunation.orgThis 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.