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Beach Babe 


Ever wonder why the British seaside is making an almighty comeback? Jodie has, so she moved there to see what all the fuss was about!

 

Join her in this dance theatre show about escaping to the sea, finding love on the shores of Margate and trying not to mess it all up, as Jodie asks, can the sea really heal us all?

 

Jodie is an Essex born choreographer, who makes work about her feelings, all of them. Or at least the ones she can “feel”. 

 

She’s an expert in discos, madness, and cats, and she's curious about the relationship between life coaching, trauma porn, and why no one wants to lose themselves in a creative dance class with her.  

 

She wanted to be a trapeze artist when she was little, but the other schoolgirls laughed at that. Instead, she’s here, with an arthritic knee, making the case for all things dancey, feelingy, and that which makes the human spirit feel glitzy. 

 

Her work has been described as “joyous” (audience member), “she made me want to see more” (Sarah Crompton, The Telegraph), “turns you into a dance polymath in a twinkling” (Lyn Gardner). 

 

Beach Babe will be made in partnership with Ideas Test, North Kent Mind, Arts & Homelessness International.

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Feel The Beat Creation & Co-Creation 

Created by Jodie Cole Dance 

Director/Choreographer: Jodie Cole

Dancers/Collaborators: Simon Palmer, Karl Fagerlund Brekke, & Faith Prendergast

Audio Describer & Dancer: Alexa Ledecky

Costume & Set Design: Jida Akil

Costume Maker: Shereen Maungoo

Original Design Concept: Kat Heath

Composer & Sound Designer: Quiet Boy

Associate Composer & Sound Designer:  Abey Bradbury

Access Support & Poetry Consultant: Neelam Saredia-Brayley

Visual Impairment Consultant: Susie Eder

Creative Enablers: An(dre)a Spisto & Naomi Cooper-Davis

Stage Manager: Steph Dickinson

Consultant Producer: Mo Pietroni-Spenst

Original Devising Cast:  Jessica Skelton

ACE Application Access Support - Roxanne Carney

Supported by Arts Council England, Dance East, Kent Association for the Blind & Meadowfields School.

Feel The Beat R&D

Created by Jodie Cole Dance 

Choreographer/Director: Jodie Cole

Creative Producer: Mo Pietroni-Spenst

Devised with and Performed by:

Alexa Ledecky, Faith Prendergast, Jessica Skelton, Simon Palmer.

Audio Describer: Alexa Ledecky

Creative Access Support: Neelam Saredia-Brayley

Composer & Sound Designer: Quiet Boy

Design: Kat Heath

Dramaturg: Nicky Napier

Visual Impairment Consultant - Susie Eder

Photography: Stephen Daly

Original Devising Cast: Karl Fagerlund Brekke

Access Support Worker: Eilís Davis

 

Video by Big Egg Films.

 

Thanks to Kent Association for the Blind and their volunteers and Vocal Eyes.

Supported by Arts Council England, The Marlowe Theatre, Applause touring, 1 Degree East. 

Audio described version also available here: https://youtu.be/8OjmKYFbMH4

 

Jodie Cole has been awarded funding by Arts Council England to research Class, Collaboration, & Complex PTSD.

I aim to learn best practice in developing more ambitious community engagement projects from leading UK practitioners, especially when working with disabled &/or untrained participants in habitually excluded areas. This access research will also apply to my own work, as I learn to lead with mental health access needs. 
 

Much Ado About Nothing

LAMDA

Director: Ellie Jones

Designer: Cory Shipp

Assistant Director: Robert Elwood

Music Support: Luke Byrne

Voice Director: Jeremy Finch

Choreographer and Movement Director: Jodie Cole

Lighting Designer: Daisy Simmons

Sound Designer: Marie Zschommler

Intimacy Director: Adelaide Waldrop

Fight Director: Sam Behan

Dance Captain: Adam Lamb

Costume Supervisor: Caitlyn Keaney

Costume Assistant: Daniella B-G

Disco Inferno 

Cirque Bijou at CamP Betsival

Close Encounters meets Saturday Night Fever and a space opera… Set to a soundtrack of disco classics, our troupe of dancers groove and our aerial disconauts perform suspended above them.

Performer & creative enabler: Jodie Cole 

Boogie Booth - National Tour 

Created by Jodie Cole Dance in collaboration with Faith Prendergast & Karl Fagerlund Brekke


Assistant choreographer: Laura Dredger
Understudies: Tolu Oshodi & Simon Palmer
BSL interpreter: Dee King 

BSL dramaturg: Jason Tennant

Composer & sound designer: Gareth Tomlinson
Production Manager: Darryn De La Soul
Hip Hip choreographer: Michaela Cisarikova
Set designer: Emily Bestow
Costume design: Isabella Van Braeckel
Logo design: Sprankenstein Studio

Supported by: Arts Council England, Kent County Council, The Marlow Theatre & 1 Degree East

The Brothers Grimm Present: Cinderella | By Alan Pollock

The Barn Theatre 

Directors: Francesca Goodridge
Composer: Tarek Merchant

Musical Director: Dylan Townley
Designer:Cory Shipp

Lighting: Sam Rowcliffe-Tanner
Animation: Barn Digital Media
Co-Movement Directors: Jodie Cole & Christina Fulcher

 

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Shakespeare's Royal Company | By Bindlestick Theatre @ Ramsgate Festival of Sound

Director: Ellie Jones 
Designer: James Frost 

Movement Director: Jodie Cole 

SAD | By Brigitte Aphrodite & Quiet Boy 

Creative Producer: 1 Degree East
Fim Maker: Tom Dream
Director: Kirsty Housley
Designer: Sprankenstein

Lighting: Ed Warren
Sound Design: Nick Trepa
Movement: Jodie Cole

 

Welcome To Thebes | By Moira Buffini

The Embassy Theatre 

By special arrangement with Samuel French Ltd a Concord Theatricals Company.

Directors: Ollie Dimsdale & Ferdy Roberts from Filter Theatre Company
Composer: Tom Haines
Designer: Amy Jane Cook
Associate Director/Vocal Coach: Deborah Garvey
Production Manager: Shaz McGee
Costume Supervisor: Alison Cartledge
Movement Director: Jodie Cole
BA (Hons) Acting CDT Course Leader:  Catherine Alexander

LOST EMPIRES | BY J.B. PRIESTLEY
Royal Central School Of Speech & Drama


Performed by BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre students
Adaptor: Bert Coules
Director: Cara Nolan
Associate Director: Kenton Thomas
Music: Wendy Gadian & William Thompson
Costume Designer/Supervisor: Alison Cartledge
Accent Coach: Louise Jones
Fight Coach: Bret Yount
Movement Director: Jodie Cole
 

 

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Beyond The Deepening Shadow :The tower Remembers 
Historic Royal Palaces | The Tower of London


Designer: Tom Piper
Sound Artist: Mira Calix
Creative Director: Deborah Shaw
Lighting Designer: Phil Supple
Staging and Movement: Anna Morrissey
Flames and Mist Effect: Mike Jones
Sound Designer David Sheppard for Sound Intermedia
Assistant Movement Director & Dance Captain: Jodie Cole 


 

I Am Not in Love

A piece about love, finding love, finding lasting love. Through text, movement and a journey on her bike, Jodie tells a story of unforeseen love.

 

"What a way to start a performance! Cole welcomes us to her world with a very realistic and loud orgasm centre stage. Then without a blink of the eye, turns to face the audience and matter-of-factly introduces herself. You cannot help but instantly like her"

The Dance Enthusiast

 

Performed at The Space, London. The Place, London. Salisbury Arts Centre, 2016

 

Lead Artist & Performer: Jodie Cole

Lighting: Lise Smith

Reviews:

© 2016 JODIE COLE

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