Mature dance collective Fine Lines Dance helps people use their bodies creatively. Video via Katrina Rank.
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00:00 [Music plays]
00:05 Hi, I'm Katrina Rank
00:07 and I'm the founder and director of Fine Lines Dance.
00:11 Fine Lines Dance is a mature dance collective.
00:16 It has dancers from around the age of 40 to late 70s
00:22 and we join in classes and in projects.
00:28 It's about growing creatively, artistically.
00:32 It's about engaging technically
00:36 but then it's also about not getting trapped in thoughts of the past,
00:44 expectations of the dancer that you used to be.
00:47 Most people in Fine Lines did have a dance background,
00:50 some of them not an extensive background,
00:54 some people have got a physical theatre background.
00:58 But what we all have to work really hard to do
01:01 is not compare ourselves now to what we could do
01:06 10 years ago, sometimes five years ago.
01:10 And it's about reacquainting with our bodies over and over again
01:14 and accepting who we are and celebrating who we are today.
01:20 And that I think is the critical thing
01:24 that we have to keep learning in Fine Lines.
01:28 I think the things that really attract people
01:32 and motivate them to keep coming back.
01:35 Number one, those moments where they really connect with their bodies
01:39 or they feel a sense of flow and they go, "I got it!"
01:42 Like, I felt like I was really connected to myself
01:46 or the music or to somebody else.
01:48 That they develop a new skill, it might be improvisation,
01:53 it might be a sequence that they've been working on for a while.
01:57 Some people prefer improvisation,
02:01 some people want to be in a work but don't necessarily want to do class.
02:06 What we try and do, what I try to do,
02:09 is to find what the person can do now
02:15 and can do very, very well and what they want to express.
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02:23 When I look at an older dancer,
02:30 I see somebody with so much potential.
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