Jo Pollitt - the response project
Jo Pollitt is a dancer, choreographer and writer whose practice draws heavily on improvisation-driven processes.
As the director of the response project - a process-based project initiated in 2000, Jo works with dancers/performers as authorities in revealing traces of lived experience and physical imagination through movement. The response project slips between physical, conceptual, sensorial and imaginative worlds to accentuate 'live-ness', positioning improvisation as performance.
As a choreographer, Jo has created & co-created many works utilsing her 'response' process including Room in 2004 for the Festival of Perth, Re-render for Chrissie Parrott at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth in 2009, and the Check Point Solo for Rhiannon Newton (Judson Church, New York, 2011 and Under the Radar Festival, Brisbane, 2011).
Jo also lectures at WAAPA; works as a dramaturg; mentors several WA independent dance artists including Rhiannon Newton, Emma Sandall and JUMP mentee Emma Fishwick, has authored several published articles, and is the founder and co-director of BIG Kids Magazine with artist Lilly Blue. She has worked with various companies and artists over her career (both as a dancer and choreographer) including Tasdance, Terrapin and Rosalind Crisp, and also holds a Masters in Creative Arts (WAAPA, 2000).
Jo is currently collaborating with dancer and choreographer Paea Leach on a writing/dance project entitled Amplified Beast. The work will be performed at Venn Gallery, Perth in March 2012.
Read more about Amplified Beast here
As the director of the response project - a process-based project initiated in 2000, Jo works with dancers/performers as authorities in revealing traces of lived experience and physical imagination through movement. The response project slips between physical, conceptual, sensorial and imaginative worlds to accentuate 'live-ness', positioning improvisation as performance.
As a choreographer, Jo has created & co-created many works utilsing her 'response' process including Room in 2004 for the Festival of Perth, Re-render for Chrissie Parrott at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth in 2009, and the Check Point Solo for Rhiannon Newton (Judson Church, New York, 2011 and Under the Radar Festival, Brisbane, 2011).
Jo also lectures at WAAPA; works as a dramaturg; mentors several WA independent dance artists including Rhiannon Newton, Emma Sandall and JUMP mentee Emma Fishwick, has authored several published articles, and is the founder and co-director of BIG Kids Magazine with artist Lilly Blue. She has worked with various companies and artists over her career (both as a dancer and choreographer) including Tasdance, Terrapin and Rosalind Crisp, and also holds a Masters in Creative Arts (WAAPA, 2000).
Jo is currently collaborating with dancer and choreographer Paea Leach on a writing/dance project entitled Amplified Beast. The work will be performed at Venn Gallery, Perth in March 2012.
Read more about Amplified Beast here
