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.
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
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
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
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