Dancer living with downs syndrome making history as a choreographer

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Disability is no barrier for Chris Dyke, a dancer living with down syndrome. As a director and a star in the contemporary dance world he is making history.

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00:00As far as we can tell, and we've done a bit of research, this is the first time that a

00:15choreographer living with Down syndrome is creating a main stage work on a contemporary

00:24dance company.

00:26First time ever, anyway.

00:31You'll start kind of going down one path with an idea with him and then he'll have a moment

00:38of genius and cut through and we're going that way and so we're literally just being

00:43led through this labyrinth of brilliance.

00:46It's like a bit of a roller coaster in the best way.

00:51Chris just has such a direct, amazing ability to create and be with the room and super creative

01:01and wacky.

01:03Some things will range from being very dense dance to theatrical, sort of funny things

01:09or very beautiful, poignant, tender moments.

01:15I always refer to Chris as a teacher.

01:18He has reminded me of what passion is, like authentic passion that's not egocentrically

01:27driven.

01:28It's like, just needs to do it.

01:32He just brings everyone up so beautifully and yeah, you just, you feel great.

01:39And yeah, he also just like really celebrates everyone in the room, which is like so rad.

01:46Chris is such a beacon of love and positivity and such a reminder for me that can get caught

01:57and tangled in the stories or the worry or the judgment in my mind, that if I just allow

02:04that to settle and come back into my heart, then the world makes a whole lot more sense.

02:10And the creativity, it just doesn't stop.

02:13Even in the lunch break you're still making, there's no pausing the creative energy of

02:18Chris Dyke.

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