In 2016, we embarked on a collaboration with the Gulbenkian Theatre’s Youth Dance Company, in Canterbury. The aim was to nurture a selected group of young people, passionate about dance and wishing to develop their skills in physical dance theatre, through working with an internationally renowned company. A Jasmin Vardimon Company dancer or former JV2 student led the weekly sessions, culminating in the creation of an original work, that would be publicly performed on stage. Donny Ferris, from Herne Bay in Kent, was amongst that first intake of aspiring dancers and was later selected to join our professional development programme, JV2. In early 2022 he was invited to join the main company, to work on Jasmin’s new creation, Alice. We hope to support more young dancers like him in Kent and therefore plan to open a Youth Company in our new HOME later in 2022.

