Author: Courtney.Roger

We are really excited to launch our brand new Pinocchio Education Resource. A vital resource for teachers, dancers, and students exploring the work of Jasmin Vardimon Company.

Free to download from our website, the resource is designed to be used by A-Level Dance teachers and students to further explore, analyse and understand the work, context and creation of Pinocchio by Jasmin Vardimon Company. However, as a named practitioner across various curriculum specifications this resource can equally support teachers and students studying GCSE, BTEC Dance, Drama and Performing Arts and anyone interested in the work of one of today’s leading female choreographers – Jasmin Vardimon.

The resource includes: detailed interviews with collaborators, key information on constituent features, contextual information on Vardimon’s influences and creative methodology, as well as chapter analysis and suggestions for both practical tasks and anaylsis questions.

This resource is an ideal tool to be used in conjunction with the Pinocchio DVD which is available through our new Friends Scheme

To download the Pinocchio Resource please visit: www.jasminvardimon.com/education/education-resources

Practical Workshops to support your teaching
You can also book practical workshops led directly by Jasmin Vardimon Company dancers to further explore the work and creative process of Jasmin Vardimon. Workshops are tailored for different ages and abilities. Too book a workshop please email: education@what2make.com

Want to learn more about the company and gain greater access to the work?
Become an Education Friend
and receive:
• 6 Free DVDs of your choice for the first year, thereafter a free DVD of the latest show
• 1 offer to join a free workshop in the Jasmin Vardimon Production Space
• 1 further workshop per every year at a discounted rate of £250 per workshop plus travel expenses

An exciting four-day residency exploring the work of Jasmin Vardimon Company through repertoire as well the creative process and methodology of one of today’s leading female choreographers, Jasmin Vardimon.

Held in the Jasmin Vardimon Production Space, the week will culminate in an informal sharing for friends and family to see the work created during the week.

Tuesday 30 May – Friday 2 June
10:00am – 16:00pm
£200

Jasmin Vardimon Production Space,
Stour Centre, Tannery Lane,
Ashford, Kent,
TN23 1PL

Suitable for ages 16+

PLACES ARE LIMITED AND WILL BE GIVEN ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS.

Non-refundable deposits of £50 are required to secure your place on the course.

To apply email the following details to: eduadmin@what2make.com

• Name
• Age
• Address
• Contact number
• Email address
• Medical information (if applicable)
• Dance experience

Bursaries are available to those who would otherwise be unable to attend due to financial circumstances.

To apply please submit via email a short statement as to why the Spring Residency would be of benefit to you and why you are in need of financial support.

Application deadline: 15 May 2017

To celebrate the launch of the book Jasmin Vardimon’s Dance Theatre: Movement, Memory and Metaphor, by Dr. Libby Worth, published by Routledge, join us at Inside Out Festival on the 25 March.

More details here:
www.insideoutfestival.org.uk/2017/events/jasmin-vardimons-dance-theatre

Saturday 25 March
16:30 – 17:30
Inside Out Festival
London South Bank University
London Road Building, 100-116 London Road, London SE1 6LN

In conversation with Geoffrey Colman (Head of Acting at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama), acclaimed choreographer Jasmin Vardimon and Libby Worth, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Practice at The Royal Holloway University of London, discuss the work with author and subject. Together they share their insights into the pair’s collaboration and the complex writing process they undertook to bring the book to fruition. They also discuss Vardimon’s vibrant, evolving choreographic practice from the seeds of an idea through to the completion of a work. What emerges is a lively and multi-layered reflection on the devising and training processes of a choreographer in the midst of her practice.

A leading force in British dance theatre for nearly twenty years, Jasmin Vardimon has built a reputation for challenging, exciting and visually stunning dance. Formed in 1997, Jasmin Vardimon Company enjoys critical acclaim and sell-out performances all over the world.

Libby Worth is a movement practitioner and scholar with research interests in dance theatre, site specific performance and performer training.

In addition to his work at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Geoffrey Colman has worked alongside Vardimon as acting coach on her works Justitia, Park and Pinocchio.

This new book provides an excellent addition to the educational resources available from the company suitable for students, teachers and practitioners.

Visit: www.jasminvardimon.com/education/resources/ for further resources available.

 

 

 

Booking now open for our brand new A-Level Dance Teacher’s CPD Day!

If you are looking to understand more about the context, collaborations and choreography of Jasmin Vardimon then book a place on our new dance teachers day!

Designed to support the new AQA A-Level Dance specification within the Area of study: The independent contemporary dance scene 2000 – current, this teachers CPD day will offer an in depth understanding of Jasmin Vardimon both practically and contextually, looking specifically at our 2016 production Pinocchio.

Monday 10th April 2017
10:00am – 17:00pm

Jasmin Vardimon Production Space
The Stour Centre, Tannery Lane, Ashford, TN23 1PL

£300

Please email to register and book your place:  education@what2make.com

Teachers A Level Dance CPD

We are delighted to have received support from the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation to support two JV2 students through two Wingate Fellowship Bursaries over the next two years!

For further information on how to apply for the Wingate Fellowship Bursary email: eduadmin@what2make.com

Open audition for JV2:  Saturday 18th February 2017

Jasmin Vardimon Production Space,
The Stour Centre, Tannery Lane, Ashford, Kent, TN23 1PL
Registration from 09:30am
Audition begins at 10:00am

Participants must be aged 18 to apply.
Please bring a non-returnable printed copy of your current CV, suitable dance wear, shoes and kneepads.

Further information email: eduadmin@what2make.com

 

Developing, encouraging and cultivating young talent is a key feature of JV2, the Professional Development Diploma training programme established by Jasmin Vardimon Educational Company in 2012. With its core focus to develop versatile and multidisciplinary performers, students on the programme work collectively as a company training alongside Jasmin Vardimon Company and its professional repertoire and creative methodology. The programme culminates annually in a national tour which features work by young choreographers and or associates of the company, as well as offers Creative Internships for young lighting design technicians and costumes designers to add production values to the touring work.

 

Over the last four years, 51 students, hand picked personally by Jasmin Vardimon, have successfully completed the programme and we are proud to report that 83% of them are currently employed in the sector. With 44% as professional performers, 25% as education facilitators, and 14% as choreographers, JV2 is indeed proving a successful pathway to employment.

 

Read the full Case study here: Pathways to Employment

Jasmin Vardimon has been announced as a Grand Final Judge for BBC Young Dancer 2017. Jasmin will be accompanied by Marc Brew, Kevin O’Hare, Kate Prince, Nahid Siddiqui and Kenneth Tharp on a leading panel of dance experts.

The Grand Final will take place on Saturday 22 April 2017 at Sadler’s Wells, and aired on BBC Two.

It will feature the winner of each category together with at least one wild card from the Category Finals and will be judged by a leading panel of dance experts.

On Tuesday 27th September on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, Jasmin Vardimon highlighted the need for high quality training opportunities for dancers in the UK.

Today the Jasmin Vardimon Educational Company launches the Pinocchio Audience Bursary, an opportunity for individual audience members to collaborate to crowd fund a bursary place for a disadvantaged British dancer on our unique professional dance diploma course, JV2.

For more information and to donate please visit www.easydonate.org/JVEC001

We are delighted to announce our brand new production Pinocchio is now on-sale!

A world premiere, based on the fairytale by Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio opens at Kent’s International Family Festival bOing! on Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 August.

This will be followed by an extensive UK tour including London’s Sadler’s Wells this Autumn.

Some venues are already on-sale with more dates to follow shortly, check our Pinocchio page for full tour dates

NOW ON-SALE:

KENT Gulbenkian bOing! Festival 27 & 28 AUG

NEWCASTLE Dance City 30 SEP & 1 OCT

ABERDEEN His Majesty’s Theatre 8 OCT

EXETER Northcott Theatre 19 – 21 OCT

Choreographed & Directed by

Jasmin Vardimon

AΦE

Vinicius Salles
 

Visit our Facebook page to view the JV2 2016 trailer.

With the mission to develop, encourage and cultivate young talent and young audiences, Jasmin Vardimon Company has formed JV2, delivering a Professional Development Certificate.  This year’s JV2, are an ensemble of 16 young, talented international dancers, hand-picked by Artistic Director Jasmin Vardimon.

JV2 2016 features Jasmin Vardimon’s work (in between) – first created for the National Youth Dance Company in 2013 and premiered at Sadlers Wells. Trapped in flux between the force of the group and the power of the individual, the work echoes relationships between humans and the natural environment.

AΦE present a work that questions the notion of presence and the realms of studio to performance and Vinicius Salles offers an inquiry of social judgments, acceptance of differences, and superficial assumptions of the “other”.

 

“…there is such robustness, rigor and athleticism on show amongst these outstanding young performers that it would be hard to fit a cigarette paper between their strength, endurance and technique” DANCE TABS on JV2 2015