Jo’s work is multi-disciplinary, combining movement, images, words and film/video. She creates pieces for live performance (theatre and site-specific) and on film, often fusing movement and documentary footage to create “portraits” with the performers. The casts of the work are diverse and international, with wide age and ability ranges.

Jo’s work is accessible and inclusive. She works with dance and storytelling processes for the development of self-expression, empowerment, education and advocacy. Projects seek to balance the aspirations of individuals with artistic investigation/expression which communicates to a wider audience.

The work is mobile because it moves to groups who may not normally come in contact with contemporary dance. It supports people in achieving mobility – in their bodies, in their development and in their relationship to the environment in which they live.

Jo is a specialist in dance in educational settings and in integrated dance (dance with groups of disabled and non-disabled performers). She co-wrote People Moving, a UK-based national training programme for professional artists working in integrated settings. She has co-written curricula for schools, colleges and universities and taught at Newham Sixth Form College for five years. Jo currently works for TanzZeit (Berlin) on the development of their training programme for dance artists working in schools and as "coach" - supporting individual artists to reflect upon their work.

Alongside several awards for her academic work, Jo won the Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award in 2002. In 1995 she received a Fulbright scholarship to complete her Masters in Choreography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has a first class degree in English/German from Oxford University.

She is based in Berlin and London.