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It's always a delight to commission Jo to run a project with my students. Her expertise in the fields of choreography & dance education enables her to inspire the students with new & exciting approaches to creating dance, as well as challenging them to develop high quality work - many students that have worked with Jo are amazed by what they have achieved during a project. As a teacher, I also value the opportunity to work with Jo. It's great to work with such a supportive and generous artist who doesn't hesitate to share her ideas. Laura Davies Jo works in educational settings in a number of
ways: Creation and delivery of professional development programmes In 2008, Jo developed the artist professional
development programme for TanzZeit, a project which places 50
dance artists in Berlin primary schools, including content for
professional development workshops, artist exchange sessions and
individual coaching. Jo continues to work regularly with TanzZeit
as a trainer/facilitator. Students come off timetable to work intensively for one to three weeks with a creative team to develop a performance piece. The piece might be live (in a theatre or site-specific) or on video. The creative team often collaborate with teacher/artists at the school to develop interdisciplinary work. Jo works with teachers to integrate the delivery
into the curriculum, developing the project around outcomes which
need to be assessed and feeding into assessment of students. Projects in partnership with schools/colleges Jo develops projects in collaboration with schools/colleges, which bring professional performers and students together to create a piece of work which is presented in the professional sphere. Students might perform in a “curtain-raiser” before the professional performers, or they might perform alongside the professionals in a live or film piece. Partnership projects often take place over an extended period of time (several months to years in length) and involve several schools, sometimes in different countries. An example of this type of project is Home. To find
out more about the project Home click here. Preferred Learning Styles Jo has worked on projects in the USA (with Celeste Miller, Krissie Marty and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival) and in the UK (in primary and secondary schools and sixth form colleges/universities) in which she has collaborated with teachers to deliver the school curriculum through movement and dance. In these projects, Jo works with teachers (of Maths, English, Languages, Biology, Chemistry etc) to co-deliver their curriculum through the use of movement-based creative processes. Students learn about the curriculum subject and about dance and sometimes create a performance piece as one outcome of the project. At NewVIc, Jo worked with HND students to develop
a project in which they worked with teachers in the sixth form
college to deliver various subjects through the mediums of creative
process and movement. She has supported teams of teacher/artists
in schools in the UK in developing similar projects. INSET training for teachers Jo can offer INSET training for teachers in using movement/dance as a tool for teaching/learning, teaching dance/choreography and working in integrated settings. Jo taught at Newham Sixth Form College, in east
London for five years, where she taught on programmes from entry
to university level. She collaborated on the writing of the HND
Performing Arts in the Community and BA programme in Performing
Arts: Community Development. She was part of the research team
on a NESTA funded research project to investigate the team’s
creative approaches to teaching and learning. Her research is
published in the book The Creative College: Building a Successful
Learning Culture in the Arts, edited by Graham Jeffery and
published by Trentham Books.
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