Jasmin will be presenting a Performance Research Seminar at Brunel University tomorrow. The subject of her lecture will be: The importance of location and context in the works of Jasmin Vardimon.
Wed 12 Februrary: 4-6pm. Drama Studio, Brunel University, Uxbridge
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Jasmin Vardimon Company is now entering Phase 2 of the INSPIRE project working with 100 young leaders and 20 teachers from 10 local Kent schools who joined together to celebrate and participate in a Big Arts Day, on site at the JVC Production Space on Friday 7 February.
Attended by The Mayor of Ashford, Councillor David Smith, the Big Arts Day presented performances by JV2 and workshop sessions run by Tim Casson and Luke Burrough assisted by the JV2 students.
Phase 3 of the project continues into March where JVC will revisit each of the 10 schools to deliver full day workshops.
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Tickets for JV2 2014 are now on sale for the spring tour.
Opening at Weymouth College on Friday 14 March, JV2 will then tour to Edge Hill University in Ormskirk (25 Mar), Derby’s Deda Theatre (28 Mar), Canterbury’s Gulbenkian (4 April), culminating with two performances at The Place London (8-9 Apr). The London dates will go on sale in the New Year.
JV2 2014 presents a triple bill choreographed & directed by Jasmin Vardimon, Paul Blackman, Christine Gouzelis and David Lloyd.
Now in its second year, JV2 is a new initiative for nurturing young talent and engaging with young audiences. Presenting a vibrant group of eleven international young dancers, hand-picked by Artistic Director Jasmin Vardimon and course leader Tim Casson, this triple bill promises a thrilling mix of inventive choreography and impressive talent.
Former JVC dancers Paul Blackman and Christine Gouzelis create beautifully intricate work with an alluring visual style. Current JVC dancer David Lloyd’s new piece delivers daring and highly physical choreography. Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells, Jasmin Vardimon revives her work Tomorrow, weaving together scenes from her celebrated repertoire, transforming favourite moments from Park, Justitia, 7734 and Yesterday into a new experience.
‘No other show has demonstrated the strength of dancers and the positive productivity of choreography for our generation. If you can catch this show do. It will make you look at dance in a whole new light’ InQuire on JV2 2013
‘Leading Through Culture’ is part of the INSPIRE Schools Olympic Legacy Programme, funded by KCC and the Bridge Organisations Artswork and Royal Opera House Bridge.
Each of the 12 districts in Kent have been invited to work in partnership with leading Kent based organisations of which Jasmin Vardimon Company has been identified. Working with 10 schools Jasmin Vardimon Company will deliver a programme of workshops, planning sessions, a ‘Big Arts Day’ and final full day workshops in each of the schools.
With an aim to develop sustainable relationships between arts organisations and the schools to inspire excellence through arts led learning, Jasmin Vardimon Company will be working with up to 70 students and 2 teachers from each school leading to a total of 700 students and 20 teachers in Kent across the duration of the project.
Initially running from November 2013 to March 2014 the project is currently in its first stage with introductory workshops in each of the schools to identify student leaders all scheduled in the run up to Christmas.
Jasmin Vardimon, has been awarded the 2013 Dimitrije Parlić Award for Best Choreography for her work Yesterday, which received its Serbian premiere in March 2013, performed by the Bitef Dance Company – a collaboration between the British Council, the Jasmin Vardimon Company and Bitef Dance Company.
Now in its 16th year, the annual Dimitrije Parlić Award is Serbia’s most prestigious award and is presented by the Association of Ballet Artists in Serbia.
This year’s jury included: Vladimir Logunov (Chairman), Danica Arapović, Paša Musić-Popović, Milena Burić and Miloš Sofrenović. Jasmin Vardimon will receive her award in person at the awards ceremony held today at the National Theatre of Belgrade.
Vardimon created Yesterday in 1998 to mark her company’s then 10th anniversary. A full-length work, Yesterday explores concepts of memory, revisiting favourite moments from previous works integrated with new choreography and live video and animation. The production has subsequently played extensively throughout the UK including two sell-out seasons at Sadler’s Wells, London and has toured internationally across Europe visiting France, Spain, Greece, Italy, the Czech Republic and to Israel, Korea and the United States.
2013 has proved a successful year for Vardimon, who also received the annual International Theatre Institute (ITI) Award for Excellence in International Dance, presented by the Director of the British Centre, Neville Shulman CBE. Vardimon was chosen for this prestigious award in recognition of her outstanding choreographic work over recent years.
Following the success of the pilot year of JV2: Jasmin Vardimon Professional Development Certificate, its successful UK tour in March – April 2013 and the graduation of 10 students (5 Merits, 5 Distinctions) we are now preparing for the course to go into its second year.
Over the 4 auditions held for 2013-14 entry, 121 people auditioned and 10 final places have been offered. Students for October will be an all female cast from 8 different countries (Greece, Latvia, England, Italy, Croatia, Ireland, Germany, France), once again demonstrating the internationality of the Jasmin Vardimon Company.
Developments for the JV2: Professional Development Certificate for this year will see guest lecturers returning to work with the students to provide specialist workshops and training and also Geoff Coleman working with the group for 2 intensive weeks. Jasmin Vardimon Company dancers both past and present have also been confirmed as choreographers for the 2014.
Programming for the 2014 Tour is beginning to take shape with 5 venues already confirmed and 4 internships offered to graduates from Wimbledon College of Art as Costume Designers for the Tour.
Justitia is coming to the Peacock Theatre for a full week, from 17 – 22 September 2013.
Performances are at 7.30pm (Tue-Sat) and 4pm on Sunday.
Jasmin Vardimon Company are enjoying a sell-out success in Spain this week, performing YESTERDAY at GREC, the prestigious arts festival of Barcelona.
Barcelona Television News interviewed Jasmin at the theatre last night and filmed segments of the show. You can watch the news piece at the link below.
The National Youth Dance Company’s world premiere at Sadler’s Wells on Saturday 8 June performing a new piece choreographed by Jasmin Vardimon called (in between), received a fantastic response from both audiences and critics alike.
NYDC will be performing the work at Sampled on 28 & 29 June prior to a short UK tour.
4 STARS in The Times:
‘A spellbinding dramatic dance. Vardimon has quickly honed these talented young people into a cohesive ensemble. The opening image – all of them upside down, legs straight in the air as arms wave like seaweed – is immediately arresting… A rampant, rushing, high-spirited energy… Vardimon’s dark take on human ecology generates an uncommon ritualistic power.’
Londondance.com said:
‘The premiere of National Youth Dance Company’s ( in between ) by their first Guest Artistic Director Jasmin Vardimon is an impressive display of team work as well as individual skill. Thirty teenagers from a variety of dance and cultural backgrounds find common ground in simple strategies like shared breathing and the rhythms breath can generate. The result is a noisy but fluid and deeply connected performance. Vardimon works with the theme of a forest, the felling and re-generation of trees – a fitting idea for environmentally switched-on young people.
Against a backdrop of a towering forest, the dancers balance on tree stumps, swaying and gesturing with their arms. Two angry men cut them down, until they are all felled – even the woman with Rapunzel-like hair who repeatedly returns to her stump in defiance. Bauschian repetition and the utilisation of sequences performed in a chorus formation, create a gratifying tension and powerful suspense. Although a state of meditative calm is brought about by the sound of the dancers breathing and wafting their arms, like the wind sighing through trees, the quality changes to one that is more thrusting and percussive as the ‘spirits’ of the trees re-group and reclaim their roots.’
Flying the flag for Britain’s top female choreographers, Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist, Jasmin Vardimon, has been awarded the 2013 International Theatre Institute (ITI) Award for Excellence in International Dance.
Presented by the Director of the British Centre, Neville Shulman CBE, Vardimon has been chosen for this prestigious award in recognition of her outstanding choreographic work over recent years.