Jos Baker. Doing ordinary things in extraordinary ways

In this 10th episode of the 2nd season, we talk with Jos Baker (UK/BE).  Jos is a choreographer dancer, actor, and teacher.  He started his dance training at the age of 7 with Oxford Youth Dance and then continued his formal education first at The Laban Center London and then at PARTS [Performing Arts Research and Training Studios] in Brussels. From 2008 to 2014, Jos worked for Peeping Tom as a dancer, actor and collaborator, principally with the productions 32 Rue Vandenbranden [2009], and A Louer [2011]. Since then he worked briefly for DV8 Physical Theatre on the production of John [2014]. Jos’ has choreographed a number of works and also directed and performed in Paris Fashion Week to promote Petit Bateau’s Cedric Charlier collection [2014] . On film, Jos made several music videos and short films, most recently as a dancer and choreographic assistant to Damien Jalet for Anima [2019], a Thom Yorke project directed by Paul Thomas Andersson. Join his classes on the w/c  15th of March 2021 as part of the TWV Academyhttps://twvonline.academy/From 34’ 35” onwards you can hear more about his class; but before and after that, do not miss: The differences between the dance scene in the Uk and in mainland EuropeThe future of dance and dance artists to have on our radar.We put Jos on the spot and ask him to give us a small selection of those artists to keep an eye on. Here you have the first names that came to him:Mathilde Gillet: https://www.instagram.com/mathildegilhet/Chey Jurado: https://www.instagram.com/cheyjurado/?hl=enAkira Yosida: https://www.instagram.com/akirazrc/?hl=enB_ nonstop: https://www.instagram.com/b_nonstop/?hl=enA few quotes from our conversation:  “I think is the ideal is that what happens next in dance is unforeseen and unforeseeable… I hope it is that way”“It is not about presenting someone or something on stage as being perfect, or being above or better than the audience. The virtuosity of what they are doing actually exposes something about the humanity in all of us, so there is something relatable at the same time”“Performance presence is not something different than dance technique”Support the showSupport the show HERE