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Jacki Mitchell, Director Millennium Performing Arts •
Nationality:
U.S. Citizen
Training
U.S.A. 1959 – 1964
Ballet: Deane and Barbara Crockett, Serge Temoff, Harjis Plucis
Modern Contemporary: José Límon
Tap: Clifford Cline
Acrobatics: Gerry Lombard
Jazz: Jere Curry
PARIS, FRANCE 1966 – 1976
Ballet: Olga Preobrajenska
LONDON, ENGLAND
Ballet and Jazz – Matt Mattox
Professional
Performing Experience
Sacramento Ballet Company, California
Appearances with San Francisco Ballet Company
1963 – 1964 Serge Temoff Ballet Company, San Francisco
1965 – 1976 Europe: Casino de Paris, Theatre ABC, Theatre
Olympia, Sporting Club( Monte Carlo), Deutschland Halle (Berlin),
Extensive work in Italy, Mediterranean and North Africa with own
company, French television, film and cabaret work with various
artists including Line Renaud, Fernando Rego, Katherine Dunham
Dancers, Johnny Halliday, Dalida, Ima Sumac, Charles Asnavour,
Jean Paul Belmondo, Mirielle Mathieu. England: Member of Matt
Mattox Jazz Company, TV commercials, Fashion.
Teaching
Credits
1997
onward Millennium Dance 2000
1978 – 1997 London Studio Centre; Guest Teacher: Americam
Academy of Dramatic Arts, USA; Scotland; Norway; Finland; Sweden;
Denmark; France; Holland; Italy; Spain; Germany; Japan; Switzerland.
1994 Dance Arts International
1993 As above, except DAI and Japan
1992 As above except Holland
1991 As above
1990 As above
1989 USA
1988 Master Classes: Canary Islands; USA
1987 Guesting in Gloucester and Southampton
1980 – 1985 Guildford School of Dance and Drama
1984 Northern Ballet School; Rambert Academmy (Twickenham)
1983 Easter Course, London Contemporary Dance School, The Place
1982 Central School of Ballet
1980 Guesting: Goldsmith’s
1978 – 1981 BBO yearly concourse including the Golden Jubilee
with Julia Farron, Ann Heaton and Doreen Wells
1978 – 1980 Royal Academy of Dancing
1977 Guesting: Chalk Farm Drama Centre
1976 Guesting: Bush Davies
Adjudication
and Judging
1997 Judge for Jazz Prize, Arts Educational, Tring Park
1988 – 1997 External moderator for Lewisham College
1994 – 1997 Chief Examiner, Dance Arts International
1988 Adjudicator for Choreography Competition, Guildford School
of Acting and Drama
Choreography
2004 Piece for Millennium Dance 2000 Theatre School
2001 Ditto
1999 Two pieces for MD2000
1998 Piece for MD2000
1996 Birdland, Wildlife Jazz Company
1981-1994 Yearly piece for London Studio Centre
1994 Competition for USA Swing dance competitors
1992 Piece for Auburn Academy of Dance
1990 Coca Cola TV commercial
Pop video for ‘Gabinette Caligari’, Spain
1987 Promotional film “What About Me’, London Transport
Crown TV Productions
1985 Piece for Regent Theatre, Farnborough
Choreographer for Bodymatters, BBC TV
1983 ‘Broadway Baby” for Wayne Sleep’s DASH
Tour, UK
1982 ‘Short Circuit’, USA
1980 – 1984 Yearly piece for Guildford School of Acting
1978 – 1980 Yearly piece for RAD
1969 – 1970 Freelance Choreographer
2005 onward Founder, Director, Mitchell Maas McLennan Artist Management
1997
onwards Founder and Director of Millennium Dance 2000
1995
– 1997 Artistic Director, WILDLIFE JAZZ COMPANY
Choreographers employed: Matt Mattox, Mauricio Wainrot (Artistic
Director of Ballet Jazz de Montreal), Linda Gibb, Patrick Delcroix
(Nederlans Dans Theatre), Robert North, Stephen Mear, Leon Hazlewood,
Nikki Woollaston, Jenny Thomas, Lorraine Le Blanc, Jacki Gunn,
Gil Cohen-Alloro, Pearl Jordan and Clinton Baugh among others.
1994 – 1997 Director of the Jazz Graduate Course, London
Studio Centre.
Created, devised and wrote the course for Isolation Technique
for both the Degree and Diploma Programs for the London Studio
Centre.
Created, devised and wrote the Third Year Professional Option
Course for Jazz Theatre Dance for both the Degree and Diploma
Programs, London Studio Centre
