ABSTRACT
Jasmin Vardimon is the choreographer and director of an innovative and increasingly high profile dance theatre company in the UK, the Jasmin Vardimon Company (JVC). Productions such as Lullaby (2003), PARK (2005), Justitia (2007), Yesterday (2008), 7734 (2010), Freedom (2012) and MAZE (2015) have proved so popular that the company regularly fills large-scale dance venues such as the main stage at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London. This accommodates increased audience demand for Vardimon and her collaborators’ specific style of work, which is layered, emotionally raw and physically daring. The company tours nationally and internationally to packed houses and in recent years has extended its schedule beyond Europe to include Asia and North America. Vardimon has won acclaim through choreographing for both her own company and for commissioned work including Home (2012), an original short opera, as part of OperaShots with composer Graham Fitkin for the Royal Opera House (ROH). She was the choreographer for the ROH production of Tannhäuser (2010), which won the Royal Philharmonic Society award in the Best Opera and Musical Theatre category. The quality of her work has been recognised through gaining many awards, including the Jerwood Choreography Award (2000) given to her by Merce Cunningham, the Jerwood Foundation’s ‘Changing Stages’ Award (2004) and the award for Excellence in International Dance (2013) given by the International Theatre Institute. The contributions she has made to dance and theatre internationally and within
education were recognised through Royal Holloway, University of London awarding her an Honorary Doctorate (2014). Vardimon has been an Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells since 2006. Besides many commissions and support from various institutions, her company has received consistent primary funding from the Arts Council England and since 2013 additional support from Kent Council together with a permanent large studio and office base, The Jasmin Vardimon Production Space, in Ashford, Kent.
