Fast Fwd, again! uses the summer feel of Tanika’s “Fast FWD,” featuring Kida Kudz, as its starting point — a motivation to create further, taking the choreography Shakeel Kimotho made for the track into fuller, more deliberate expansion.
Filmed at Green Place Studios, the film carries three working logics at once — a music video shoot, an artist’s stage performance day, and the choreography’s own development — held together within a single day’s arc. A documentary, observational eye stays close to the particulars: the mirror rituals of getting ready, the casual marking of steps sharpening into something fuller, the small idiosyncrasies and concentrated attention of dancers listening into Kimotho’s direction. Crew and cameras surface in these early stages, situating the viewer inside the process, before receding naturally as the work builds toward its full register.
A lighting concept running from sunrise to sunset mirrors this progression — the dancers’ day and the choreography’s own seed-to-stage trajectory — resolving by the film’s close into a fully realised simulated stage performance. This is a humanistic take on commercial dance aesthetic and vocabulary — less a reinvention of the form than a new container for it, one that makes space for the individual rather than folding them into a uniform ensemble. The cast spans the breadth of London’s scene — contemporary, commercial, and newly arrived — each given their own space within the composition.
Fast Fwd, again! is the debut production from Wrote Your Own.
Credits:
Film Title: Fast Fwd, again!
Track: Fast FWD by Tanika feat. Kida Kudz
Creative Direction and Choreography: Shakeel Kimotho
Production: Wrote Your Own in collaboration with Purple Silk Limited
Director: Stephanie Burrell
Director of Photography: Jamie Oliver Lai
First Assistant Director: Kazimir Klein
Edit: Stephanie Burrell & Kit Kelsey
Colour Grade: Kit Kelsey
Lighting: Jamie Oliver Lai & Kit Kelsey
Dancers: Verity Wright, Hannah Renton, Annie Andriamiharisoa, Manon Servage
Stylist: Beaux Harris
Stylist Assistant: Ettie Agace
Additional Camera & BTS Photography: Valerie Schwane Torres
BTS Photography: Derick Armah
BTS: Imogen Farenden & Gigi Williams
Lighting Assistant: Melody Mengyun Liu
Location: Green Place Studios