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News story - Put on your dancing shoes and choose life Heathman heathman@hamhigh.co.uk FORMER funeral director Cordelia Donohoe has chosen life over death. Literally. After leaving her former profession sending off departed souls last week, the Kentish Town-based ex-film maker is organising a new dance event called "energise your soul". The event, which features Djembe drummers and DJs playing funk, dub basslines and ethnic groove, aims to celebrate life through dance. It is a community project with the emphasis on fun - the proceeds of which go to Camden Mentoring Plus, where professionals help socially excluded youths in the borough. The 42-year-old, whose sister is film and television actress Amanda Donohoe, says her past as an eco-friendly funeral director at Kentish Town-based Green Endings, made her take stock of her own life, health and values. But ultimately it was the key to affirming her own joie de vivre: "The reality of dealing with death makes you want to live life in the strongest colours, and, even though it is a clich Energise Your Soul website.