‘start again’

Something endless does not end.
It refreshes.
Taking what has been.
It regenerates.
Sculpting a new.
A fresh experience.
Something endless does not end.
It starts over.

Musician: Tom Ashbrook

Director: Jordan James Bridge

Choreographer/Dance Artist: Jordan James Bridge

DOP/Editor: Ray Moody

Words by Conn Williams

Jordan James Bridge on the video: “After creating a solo late last year to Tom Ashbrook’s track ‘Klass’, we quickly bonded over the collaboration between sound and dance. Despite Covid trying to stop us all in our tracks, we have been able to keep creative from afar. ‘Start Again’ for me is a cinematic experience, it takes me on a short journey through melodic harmonies and emotive driven chords. It made me think about reincarnation, rebirth and growth. That’s where the solo has its stimulus.

I wanted to simulate a large black void and have a Yves Klein blue hue as the singular colour within the video, creating an almost porcelain-like skin which looks fragile and precious. The movement leans towards a continuous nature, almost as though the dancer could be dancing there for hours in this dark abyss, which I think works well with the seamless slow motion brilliantly shot and edited by Ray Moody.

The accompaniment being light & uplifting juxtaposed with the dark filming is an interesting and unusual blend. I hope that by watching ‘Start Again’ it will make you feel. Feel something to invoke a change in your emotional state for the day.”