SIZE OF COMPANY
12 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Shobana Jeyasingh
Interim Executive Director
Andrew Broadley
Company Coordinator
Caroline Begalla
Associate Producer (outreach & education)
Zoe Boden
Company Assistant
Lizz Fort

ARTISTIC POLICY
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company is a contemporary dance company based in London whose work expresses the vision of its Artistic Director Shobana Jeyasingh. Founded in 1988, the company has produced imaginative, innovative, and critically acclaimed work that has given cultural diversity a unique spin. The company has successfully promoted dance as a medium for engagement and entertainment, and makes work for both conventional theatre and outdoor sites.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Shobana Jeyasingh is one of the most gifted choreographers living and working in Britain.
Evening Standard
[Jeyasingh] displays a ferocious talent for structure, with lines of movement shuttling backwards and forwards until the stage vibrates with concentrated energy.
Guardian
It's sophisticated stuff, subsuming elements of Indian bharatanatyam…into flickering, digitally inspired shapes.
The Independent on Sunday

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
The Dancers’ Cut
A small-scale retrospective to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary in 2008. Four dancers and a film-maker look back at the best work from recent years.
75 mins, 4 on stage, 5–6 on the road
Faultline
Multi-lingual movement, film and a powerful score evokes the current tensions of British Asian youth. Imagery is inspired by the mix of languages and slang in Gautam Malkani’s book Londonstani.
30 mins, 7 on stage, 11 on the road
Exit no Exit
The anticipation of entrances and impossibility of easy exits propel the characters in this dramatic piece where a woman in a cocktail dress plays out her own story.
30 mins, 7 on stage, 11 on the road

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Jeyasingh’s new work (title tbc) introduces a unique script for the moving body, exploring the idea that food is a perfect metaphor for shifting identities. Available in spring–autumn 2009.

WRAP-AROUND
The company has a strong education and outreach programme that includes Masterclasses, workshops for ages 4–18, vocational dance programmes, community work with refugees and elders, pre and post-show talks and lecture-demonstrations.   

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Italy: Faultline, Exit no Exit, Tanstep 2, Flicker
2006 South Korea: Flicker, Exit no Exit
2006 Hong Kong: Exit no Exit
2006 Italy: Flicker, Transtep 2

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Spring and autumn 2009