Jodie Nunn

Lecturer in Dance Education

Formerly practicing as a freelance dance educator, Jodie (she/her) trained at the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), London, where she obtained both a BA (Hons) Ballet Education and Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Dance (LRAD). Jodie has since completed an MA Dance Politics & Sociology degree with the University of Roehampton, London, alongside developing her professional practice as a dance artist, educator, writer, and producer.

Upon graduation, Jodie was awarded the Dissertation Prize, commending her postgraduate research entitled, Breaking Pointe? 2020 Cultural Disorientation and the Releve of the Ballet-Activist (2021); Jodie continues to thoughtfully exist at the intersection at which dance meets the socio-political, driven by the pursuit of invoking meaningful change both within and beyond the dance spheres she occupies.

Jodie’s professional portfolio is eclectic yet circumvolutes her identity as a dance-activist. Teaching in a range of dance education contexts including primary, secondary, adult, private, and community, Jodie values her positionality in sharing and nurturing the tools of creativity, artistry, and musicality with those she interacts. Alongside this, Jodie practices as a freelance dance writer, contributing articles and reviews to Dance Art Journal, The Place, One Dance UK, and collaborations with British Ballet Now & Then. Working with internationally recognised dance organisations such as One Dance UK and Dance Consortium (Dance Ambassador & Future Leader), in addition to working with the East Cambridgeshire School Sports Partnership, The Place (Resolution Festival 2022), and Dance East (U.Dance), Jodie continues to advocate for the importance of dance in education. In 2021, alongside MA Dance peers, Jodie co-founded and produced the first iteration of Dancing with Decolonisation, International Online Conference, a strand of her work from which she draws immense pleasure and transformation, continuing to question, [de]construct, and evolve her professional practice as dance educator and writer.

Enthralled by the opportunity for further growth, Jodie is thrilled to continue her work as a dance educator within the role of Lecturer in Dance Education, sharing her eclectic educational and artistic endeavours with aspiring dance practitioners, empathetic to their experiences as a graduate of the RAD herself.