dance for joy journal: a journal for expression and transformation

In this fun and empowering journal, joyful dancers cheer on your creative endeavors.

Dance can be radical self-expression, community celebration, revolutionary protest, or pure elation. This lightly guided journal encourages you to channel all that positive energy into all your projects. Aurélia Durand’s illustrations practically dance off the page, thanks to a clever flip-book effect. These dancers will be your cheerleaders as you write, sketch, plan, and dream.

STAR ILLUSTRATOR: From illustrating the New York Times-bestselling This Book Is Anti-Racist to delivering a keynote slot at Adobe Max, Aurélia Durand captures the zeitgeist in bold shape and color. She’s an ambitious and multitalented artist, poised to move hearts and minds with her first authored book and an accompanying stationery line.

INCLUSIVE AND EMPOWERING MESSAGE: This journal takes inspiration from movement traditions across time and around the world, offering a truly inclusive vision of how dance can empower.

A NEW GENERATION OF DANCERS: Online platforms like Tiktok have ushered in a new era for dance, with challenges going viral and new styles being shared around the world. Durand’s uplifting images are perfectly pitched for those who have discovered a new passion for expressing themselves through movement online.

Perfect for:

• Dancers and dance lovers
• Aurélia Durand fans
• People passionate about inclusivity and joyful activism
• People seeking to celebrate Black excellence
• Creatives of all types
• Fans of Tiktok dance videos

Aurélia Durand is an artist, illustrator, animator, and muralist. Her books include This Book Is Anti-Racist. She lives in Paris.