The “dance class” Laurea and I danced with last weekend was definitely one of the highlights of my year. This is one of those films that, watching it, you really wish you had helped to make. Even if all I did was stand around and punch my fists in the back row for four hours, it was so thrilling to take part.
The amazing “skeleton guy” who led the group is a dancer named John Doyle, by the way, and he makes for a great teacher—even when the floor is a cement handball court and the lights are a 93-degree July day.
Jacob talked to Gothamist about the Girl Walk team’s many filming adventures, plans for the film’s premiere + how Kickstarter has changed his life.
Also, he reiterates the driving line of thought behind the whole project:
I’m more interested in the way dance is an expression of an ecstatic, ineffable feeling than I am in the perfect expression of movements by trained dancers. I hope that Girl Walk inspires people to move with less self-consciousness and more freedom.
