Jo Meredith is Creative Director of NYB and an international movement director, dance educator and choreographer. She worked as a dance artist for fourteen years performing in performances on Broadway and in London’s West End as well touring nationally.
She is Creative Director of ENB Youth Co-Connect an accessible youth dance initiative developed for English National Ballet. She was Creative Director of ENB Youth Co for 5 years. She currently leads the Professional Development Module on London Studio Centre’s MA in Dance Performance course. For Youth Music Theatre UK she directed and choreographed More in Common a musical inspired by the life and work of murdered MP Jo Cox. She directed the Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus in a work inspired by Windrush which was performed at Tilbury Docks. Jo is an alumna of the National Youth Ballet and has created seven ballets for the company. Jo is passionate about inclusive practice and worked at The Vale SEND School in Tottenham for seven years developing initiatives for young dancers to take part in dance activities. This has led her to develop NYB’s Applied Ballet- All In! programme in association with partners South East Dance and Parable Dance.
Movement Direction credits include La Calisto, Teatro Alla Scala, Milan, Director David McVicar, Medea, The Metropolitan Opera House, Director David McVicar, La Boheme, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Director Amy Lane, I Masnadieri, Teatro Alla Scala, Milan, Director David McVicar, Drot Og Marsk, Royal Danish Opera, director Amy Lane and Kasper Holten, Tosca, Icelandic Opera, director Greg Eldridge. Rigoletto Savonlinna Opera, director David McVicar. Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Alte Munze, Berlin, director Julia Burbach. The Picture of Dorian Gray, UK tour, director Séan Aydon. 3 Jette Parker Young Artist Summer Performances, directed by Noa Naamat and Greg Eldridge, Royal Opera House, Main Stage. La Scala Di Seta and The Lighthouse, ROH Linbury Studio Theatre, director Greg Eldridge. Macbeth directed by Bruno Ravella and A Fairy Queen and Un Ballo in Maschera directed by Tim Nelson at Iford Arts. Siegfried and Gotterdammerung, Longborough Festival Opera. Don Giovanni directed by Lloyd Wood and La Calisto directed by Tim Nelson for English Touring Opera. She re-staged Leah Hausman’s movement for David McVicar’s Royal Opera production of Rigoletto at Teatro Real, Madrid and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Photo (c) Mikah Smillie
