Jennifer is an award winning independent dance artist with a specialism in inclusive practice and site-specific performance. She works internationally in theatre, film, television, and arts for social development projects. She has been Associate Artist with Candoco Dance Company since 2006 and is currently part of East London’s Bank Program. There she co-choreographed the large scale Tomorrow’s Men project that aimed to re-engage young men through dance and was staged in Canary Wharf as part of the London 2012 Festival. She was the choreographer of 12 Moves Worcester in collaboration with SDNA TV and Mira Calix and was Assistant Choreographer on Birmingham Opera’s Othello, working with 300 members of the local community and professional cast. It was nominated for an RPS Award for Best Opera in 2009. In 2011 she won Best Choreography at the UK Music Video Awards for her work on Wave Machines’ Keep the Lights On. Jennifer is the director of iRONiNC; a dance and physical theatre company and ironINC in Africa; an arts and cultural exchange program. She is also Co-Artistic Director of make.AMPLIFY whose current projects include the multimedia and dance project for elderly people produced by DanceDigital and Apparitions; the larger than life video mapped projections featuring in the official opening of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in July 2013. For more information: www.jenniferirons.co.uk
Jennifer Irons
