JumpOutOfNowhere
JooNDance is a small company of physical performers and creators. We aim to make energetic and physical dance theatre. Our goal is to break contemporary dance open: New audiences, more participants, increased accessibility.
JooN wants to be as varied as possible. Dance artists from the company are involved in other projects all over the UK, including performing with other companies, choreographing for theatre groups and music videos, making dance films, writing and performing poetry... Dance is beneficial to people of all ages. It’s great for bodies, minds and social lives... We believe the route to a nationwide dance culture is versatility, experimentation and colourful, skilful, energetic productions. Above all we are interested in multi-disciplinary performance.
reviews
“Choreographers have long conscripted the written word but none with such inventive irreverence as Daniel Walters. In A Dreamer's Daytime Desire three dancers flip through hardcover books while a fourth drops pages from her cocoon-like shroud. They lift sheets of paper with their teeth and tear them with their toes, providing their own accompaniment as they strut upon the crinkling pages. But JooNDance's appeal does not stop here; a loud boom unites the dancers and they begin to hurl themselves into the ground like suicidal beetles. Books once balanced upon their heads lie in ruins across the stage and the dancer's legs slice like scissors through the air. A series of compelling duets evolves into a chorus of increasingly recognizable words and the work concludes with one dancer pulling herself along a line of pages that crosses the stage.” - Kat Richter, Resolution Review ‘09
“...evocative imagery offered up by A Dreamer's Daytime Desire. It was a piece of great moments - particularly a sequence which saw the four dancers weighed down by scattered pages from books, an elegant way of suggesting the oppressive power of words...” - Keith Watson, Resolution Review ‘09