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Episode Two - Joss Arnott Fostering Creativity & Building Community: a dance education podcast
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- Performing Arts
Welcome back, everyone! For Episode Two I'm jumping "across the pond" to discuss artistic practice with UK-based choreographer and dance practitioner Joss Arnott (he/him). Joss boast diverse experiences with his own professional dance company, Joss Arnott Dance, as well as with higher education through the University of Salford's MA Performance and Professional Practices program. He takes some time to talk about what creativity and collaborative practice means to him, as well as reminding us that we're all human at the end of the day. Aspiring choreographers, tune in for a range of topics that will feed your artistic practice and get you excited to jump into the wider dance industry.
Keep scrolling for Joss's bio, then be sure to give him a follow online to keep up with his adventures. Select social media and platforms listed below.
Full Biography
Founding Joss Arnott Dance in 2010, Joss is an internationally award-winning choreographer who has been supported and commissioned by leading UK dance agencies, venues and funding organisations. Recently shortlisted for One Dance UK's People's Choice Award, Joss has been commissioned to create work on professional dance companies including Rambert and for leading dance conservatoires. His artistic vision is fuelled by creating a portfolio of work for a diverse range of audiences which are at the heart of everything he produces, including indoor, outdoor and family oriented productions.
Joss has been a Focus Group Artist for Sadler's Wells National Youth Dance Company, BBC Young Dancer consultant and has worked with and produced multiple works for national Centre for Advanced Training Schemes. He is also a featured artist for AQA's 2020/21 Performing Arts Qualification. He received his first international dance award in 2016 for his solo work 'V' for Outstanding Choreographic Musical Interpretation and Dance Technicality from WARSAWZawirowania Dance International.
2018 marked the year of the newly formed partnership between Joss Arnott Dance and the University of Salford with the launch of a new MA Dance Performance and Professional Practices programme that established EMERGENCE, now a leading postgraduate performance company, that tours newly commissioned performance work by internationally acclaimed choreographers annually. In 2019 he became an Associate Artist at Déda. Later this year, Joss Arnott Dance were selected to be part of Surf the Wave, UK Dance Showcase and joined the Without Walls Programme with 'PULSE!', a dance and live music duet created for the streets set around a 3.5m high percussion wheel designed by Lindbury Prize winning artist Eleanor Bull and engineered by Rolls-Royce.
2020 marks Joss Arnott Dance's 10th anniversary and the company celebrated this key milestone developing the 'DANCE:CONNECTS - PULSE! 2.0' initiative. With support from Arts Council England's Emergency Response Funding and commission funds from Pavilion Dance South West, JAD were able to financially support more than 25 independent dance artists and work with hundreds of people of all ages from across the world including Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and the USA through online live workshops, tutorials and accessible pre-recorded Learn at Home Videos. The legacy in this work is through film documentation and the existing and new global relationships the company developed. This includes the British Council with both films being selected to be featured as part of the 2020 UK-China Contemporary Culture Festival.
http://jossarnottdance.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jossarnottdance/
https://www.instagram.com/emergence_dance/
https://www.facebook.com/jossarnottdance.danceconnects/
FC&BC is dedicated to accessibility! Please email hallemathieson@gmail.com for this episode's transcript. Feel free to pop me a message to discuss any additional needs.
Welcome back, everyone! For Episode Two I'm jumping "across the pond" to discuss artistic practice with UK-based choreographer and dance practitioner Joss Arnott (he/him). Joss boast diverse experiences with his own professional dance company, Joss Arnott Dance, as well as with higher education through the University of Salford's MA Performance and Professional Practices program. He takes some time to talk about what creativity and collaborative practice means to him, as well as reminding us that we're all human at the end of the day. Aspiring choreographers, tune in for a range of topics that will feed your artistic practice and get you excited to jump into the wider dance industry.
Keep scrolling for Joss's bio, then be sure to give him a follow online to keep up with his adventures. Select social media and platforms listed below.
Full Biography
Founding Joss Arnott Dance in 2010, Joss is an internationally award-winning choreographer who has been supported and commissioned by leading UK dance agencies, venues and funding organisations. Recently shortlisted for One Dance UK's People's Choice Award, Joss has been commissioned to create work on professional dance companies including Rambert and for leading dance conservatoires. His artistic vision is fuelled by creating a portfolio of work for a diverse range of audiences which are at the heart of everything he produces, including indoor, outdoor and family oriented productions.
Joss has been a Focus Group Artist for Sadler's Wells National Youth Dance Company, BBC Young Dancer consultant and has worked with and produced multiple works for national Centre for Advanced Training Schemes. He is also a featured artist for AQA's 2020/21 Performing Arts Qualification. He received his first international dance award in 2016 for his solo work 'V' for Outstanding Choreographic Musical Interpretation and Dance Technicality from WARSAWZawirowania Dance International.
2018 marked the year of the newly formed partnership between Joss Arnott Dance and the University of Salford with the launch of a new MA Dance Performance and Professional Practices programme that established EMERGENCE, now a leading postgraduate performance company, that tours newly commissioned performance work by internationally acclaimed choreographers annually. In 2019 he became an Associate Artist at Déda. Later this year, Joss Arnott Dance were selected to be part of Surf the Wave, UK Dance Showcase and joined the Without Walls Programme with 'PULSE!', a dance and live music duet created for the streets set around a 3.5m high percussion wheel designed by Lindbury Prize winning artist Eleanor Bull and engineered by Rolls-Royce.
2020 marks Joss Arnott Dance's 10th anniversary and the company celebrated this key milestone developing the 'DANCE:CONNECTS - PULSE! 2.0' initiative. With support from Arts Council England's Emergency Response Funding and commission funds from Pavilion Dance South West, JAD were able to financially support more than 25 independent dance artists and work with hundreds of people of all ages from across the world including Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and the USA through online live workshops, tutorials and accessible pre-recorded Learn at Home Videos. The legacy in this work is through film documentation and the existing and new global relationships the company developed. This includes the British Council with both films being selected to be featured as part of the 2020 UK-China Contemporary Culture Festival.
http://jossarnottdance.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jossarnottdance/
https://www.instagram.com/emergence_dance/
https://www.facebook.com/jossarnottdance.danceconnects/
FC&BC is dedicated to accessibility! Please email hallemathieson@gmail.com for this episode's transcript. Feel free to pop me a message to discuss any additional needs.
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