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OPEN AUDITIONS for Gulbenkian Youth Dance Company take place Sunday 29 October, at the Sports Centre, University of Kent, 2-5pm.

If you’re 14-18 and have contemporary dance experience, this is a great opportunity to develop your creative, technical and theatrical abilities, in physically challenging sessions led by Jasmin Vardimon Company dancers. As part of Gulbenkian Youth Dance Company, you’ll work towards creating curtain-raiser performances for professional companies and get to see selected dance shows from the Gulbenkian programme for free.

Gulbenkian Youth Dance Company sessions run termly, 2.45-5pm on Sundays, at a cost of £10 per session.

Auditions are open to all with relevant experience, but you must register in advance. Email Neelam Saredia, Gulbenkian’s Creative Learning Assistant on N.Saredia@kent.ac.uk for a registration form.

Gulbenkian Youth Dance Company is run in partnership with Jasmin Vardimon Company and Kent Sport.

If you are looking to enhance your performance and dance technique, then come and join us for a brand new autumn term of Intermediate Contemporary Dance Classes.

Classes are suitable for ages 16+, and take place at the Jasmin Vardimon Production Space in Ashford. If possible, please bring trainers and kneepads.

Classes are £10 each* and run on Thursday evenings, 6.30pm-7.30pm, from 26th October-14th December.
*Book all 8 classes and get 1 class free!

Places are allocated on a first come first served basis. Please book your place in advance by emailing eduadmin@what2make.com.

Following on from the hugely successful Justitia symposium, award winning Sadler’s Wells Associate and international choreographer Jasmin Vardimon invites you to join and listen to a panel of leading thinkers, contemporary philosophers and creative minds to analyse, respond and debate a shared moment of performance – her critically acclaimed production of Pinocchio.

The symposium, hosted by Geoffrey Colman, Head of Acting, Royal Central School (acting coach, director, writer and broadcaster), will provide a fantastic opportunity for the general public as well as MA students, undergraduate and A-level teachers/students to witness fresh and creative ways to analyse and interpret Jasmin’s work. This free event will follow the matinee performance, and is ahead of the evening performance of Pinocchio at Sadler’s Wells on Saturday 28 October.

Contributors include:
– Emily Kasriel
– Mark Foley
– Dr Simone Schnall
– Dr Iain MacKenzie
– Dr Danielle Sands
– Dr David Berman
– Graham Watts OBE
– Dr Libby Worth
– Gray Risby

The event is free but will be ticketed. Book by emailing admin@what2make.com or by calling 01233 628545.

Symposium: Saturday 28 October, 4.30pm-6pm – Mezzanine, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London

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Following the high demand for JVIntensive in the UK, we are really excited to announce we will also be holding JVIntensive in Barcelona this year!

Hosted by Institute of the Arts Barcelona, Jasmin Vardimon Company will offer the JVIntensive 6 week programme from Monday 3rd July to Friday 11th August 2017.

We still have places available so if you are looking for an intensive programme to develop your versatility as a performer, and fancy training over the summer in Barcelona, please email education@what2make.com to apply!

Places offered on a first come first served basis.

For more information on the programme visit:  www.jasminvardimon.com/education/jvintensive

 

 

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