Speaking to the role of dance and intimacy in the history of multiculturalism, no more quick, quick, slow explores the legacy and intricacies of race relations(hips) in the United Kingdom.

The work’s title references a quote taken from Lucy Bland’s text Britain’s ‘Brown Babies’, recounting the history of white women meeting, loving and dancing with Black GI’s during WWII – “We English girls took to it like ducks to water. No more quick, quick, slow for us. This was living.”

The work itself is a call to action – to do and dance better. First shown here during the global 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, the work challenges what “to lead” really means, and who has the privilege and power to do so.

Rene Matić (b. 1997, Peterborough) lives and works in London