Award-winning Vardimon returns to the stage

Posted on June 3, 2013

Choreographer Jasmin Vardimon has been awareded the 2013 International Theatre Institute (ITI) award for excellence in international dance. Presented by Neville Shulman, director of the British Centre, the award recognises Vardimon’s choreographic work in recent years.

Vardimon will be returning to performance in the forthcoming restaging of her 2006 work Justitia, which returns to London’s Peacock Theatre from September 17 to 22. Danced on a large, revolving set, the work unravels multiple truths behind a crime story.

Vardimon is also the first guest artistic director of the new National Youth Dance Company (NYDC). The young company will make its debut at London’s Sadler’s Wells on June 8, dancing a new work created by Vardimon, before touring to Kent, Leeds, Salford Quays and Bristol.

Picture: Jasmin Vardimon. Photograph: Ben Harries

Zoe Anderson

Zoë was born in Edinburgh, and saw her first dance performances at the Festival there. She is the dance critic of The Independent, and has also written for The Independent on Sunday, The Scotsman and Dancing Times. In 2002, she received her doctorate from the University of York for a thesis on “Nationhood and epic romance: Ariosto, Sidney, Spenser”. She is the author of The Royal Ballet: 75 Years and The Ballet Lover’s Companion.