After completing my schooling, I went on to do further studies at NAISDA where I learnt traditional dances from the communities NAISDA engaged with. The styles of dance I feel most comfortable doing are contemporary and trad’ (traditional) ... actually, I think I feel most relaxed when I'm dancing traditional. With trad’, I draw a lot from that 'groundedness' - that 'deep in the legs' sort of feeling. In contemporary, like in trad’, I lean my body over, forwards, a lot. I take the purpose of trad’ and then ask myself “what is the purpose of these contemporary moves?”. For example, if I’m in a contemporary class and the moves require a feeling of release, I try to think of how trad’ makes me feel after a long session - I use this feeling and transfer it into the dance moment, whatever the moves are.