JACKIE SNOW FGSMD, DIP LCDD, AISTD (Ballet), MAAD (Acrobatics)

Jackie trained as a dance and ballet teacher at the London College of Dance and Drama and as a Movement for Actors Teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Qualifications

  • Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
  • Advanced diploma in movement and theatre dance (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
  • Diploma of the London College of Dance and Drama
  • Associate of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance (Ballet)
  • Member of the American Academy of Dance (Acrobatics)

Teaching experience

Head of Movement

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

2003-2011

Head of Movement at RADA, organising the Movement Department. This position involved facilitating the movement, dance, Laban, stage-fighting and Alexander Technique on the three year BA (Hons) acting course. Additional responsibilities included coordinating with other departments and the management team as well as teaching and movement directing.

Teacher of Movement

Guildhall School of Music and Drama

1983-2003

Trainer of actors in movement, historical dance and acrobatics.

Teacher of Movement

British American Drama Academy

1990–Present

Teacher on both the London Theatre and Midsummer in Oxford Programs.

Additional teaching experience

Movement Training for Other Professions

'Clod Ensemble' at Bart's Hospital and King's and Imperial Colleges, London

Currently

Lecturer in Movement Training for Actors, Historical Dance/Movement and Animal Study for the Movement Project to level 4 and level 5 BA (Hons) Acting students

Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre

Currently

Lecturer in Movement Training for Actors, Historical Dance/Movement and Animal Study for the Movement Project to First and Second Year BA (Hons) Acting students

Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

Currently

MA (Hons) in Screen Acting

Central School of Speech and Drama

Currently

BA (Hons) and MA (Hons) in Screen Acting

The Drama Centre, London

Currently

Movement Workshop

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

2010

Movement Training for Teachers

Central Academy of Drama Beijing, China

2010

Teacher of Historical Dance

Regent's University, Virginia Beach, USA

2007 & 2008

Teacher of Movement and Historical Dance

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, London

1996

Master of Movement

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London

1997-2000

Teacher of Movement

Rose Bruford College, London

1995

Theatre movement direction and choreography

Rose Theatre, Kingston

Love's Labour's Lost

(Peter Hall)

2008

US tour

Burial at Thebes

(Lucy Pitman-Wallace)

2008

Nottingham Playhouse

Burial at Thebes

(Lucy Pitman-Wallace)

2007

Barbican Theatre, London

Burial at Thebes

(Lucy Pitman-Wallace)

2007

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Twelfth Night

(Tim Sheader)

2005

Donmar Warehouse

Uncle Vanya

(Sam Mendes)

2002

National Theatre

Further Than the Furthest Thing

(Irina Brown)

2000

Northcott Theatre, Devon

Man of Mode

(Matthew Smith)

1993

Polka Theatre

The Dreams of Anne Frank

(Leona Heimfeld)

1990

Screen movement direction and choreography

(Sofia Coppola)

2007

(Channel 4)

2006

(Terrence Malick)

2005

(Stephen Poliakoff)

2001

(Philip Kaufman)

2000

(Raverge Anselm (coach for Kirsten Dunst))

1999

Publications

Movement Training for Actors (textbook)

(Jackie Snow, Methuen Drama)

2012

Fine-Tune Your Body (article)

(Jackie Snow, The Guardian)

2009

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