Jeannette Ginslov (Phd, MSc, MA) is a media and Screendance artist, researcher and published scholar, whose practice as research examines embodiment in relation to dance, materiality, video and embodied technologies. She is an independent Screendance maker, producer, online workshop facilitator, curator and has screened her works internationally since 2007. In 2021 she was awarded a PhD from the Arts and Creative Industries Department at London South Bank University, where she researched Deep Flow: a tentacular worlding of dance, biosensor technology, lived experience, and embodied materials of the human and non-humankind. She also has an MSc in Media Arts & Imaging in Screendance Dundee University (Distinction), and an MA in Dance & Choreography, Rhodes University. Her current research focuses on embodied materiality, Screendance and visual aesthetics.
Previously she trained in Classical Ballet RAD - Advanced Level, Contemporary Dance in NYC at the Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance, Limon School of Dance, Cunningham and Contact Improvisation with Randy Warshaw. She has teacher's training certificate from Le Centre National de Danse Contemporaine, CNDC, Angers, France, with training in Contemporary Dance Techniques, Kinesiology, Dance History, Contact Improv and Dance Pedagogy. She practiced, taught and choreographed Contemporary dance for well over 20 years in South Africa (1985-2008) to students and dancers at various dance companies, university departments and at the Dance Factory in Johannesburg to dancers from Soweto.
She founded her own dance company DNA Dance Theatre (early 2000) and Walking Gusto Productions - multimedia dance theatre company (2000-2008).Productions - multimedia dance theatre company (2000-2008). Funded by the National Arts Council South Africa. Here she was the dancer, dance teacher, choreographer, Artistic Director, Company Manager and Fundraiser where she created a new work each year for my company, for the Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.
She toured her company in South Africa and internationally. Highlights: performed a solo sandstone at the Sodra Teatern, Sweden (1993), and choreographed written in blood (20 mins) in 2000. This was choreographed on the State Theatre Dance Co. and was the winner of le Prix d’Auteur du Conseil Général Seine-Saint-Denis. It was performed at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis in Paris, France 2000. written in blood won the Second National Choreographic competition run by the State Theatre in 1998 and was a finalist in the Afrique en Creation Competition in Madagascar, 1999.
In 2012 she co-founded Screendance Africa - PTY (Ltd) (2012-2019) with Dominique Jossie in CapeTown where we were dedicated to dance on screen in Africa made by Africans. They curated for many international Screendance Festivals, including Cinedans and Tanzrauchen in Wuppertal Germany amongst others in USA, South America, Hong Kong, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, South Africa and the UK.
Since now lives in Malmö Sweden, and since 2021 she has worked on:
GINSLOV MEDIA STUDIO: http://www.jginslov.com/ginslov-media-studio.html for Screendance workshops, Online Screendance coaching and mentoring, Freelance Filming and editing services and Deep Flow workshops online and in the studio. Relaunched 2023.
CATALYSTS - Somatic Resonance developed at the Inter Arts Centre Malmö: https://www.iac.lu.se/projects/bodily-interfaces/ The project is an AR/MR/AI and Screendance collaboration with Susan Kozel (Malmö University), choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir and AR/AI designer Keith Lim. It premiered 22 February 2022 in Berlin at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry
See: https://www.somaticarchiving.org/work/catalysts-somatic-resonance
Nanocosmic Aesthetics: Scatterdance, a collaboration with Keith Lim and nuclear scientist Emil Rofors, selected for the Open Call ESS & InterArts Centre Residency in Malmö, exploring Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS), the embodiment of data and neutronic imagery, using AR/VR technologies to create a new visual aesthetic. www.iac.lu.se/news/ess-residency-artists-selected/
In January 2022 she joined the School of Arts and Communication, K3 Malmö University, Sweden, as a Media and Communications Master's Thesis Supervisor and Examiner to12 Masters Students.
She conducted online Screendance facilitation for MA and Third Year Choreography Dance students at the Institute for Creative Arts and Interdisciplinary Institute in the University of Cape Town’s Humanities Faculty (2019-2021).
See CV or bio and texts for publications and other research collaborations, installations and events.
Previously she trained in Classical Ballet RAD - Advanced Level, Contemporary Dance in NYC at the Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance, Limon School of Dance, Cunningham and Contact Improvisation with Randy Warshaw. She has teacher's training certificate from Le Centre National de Danse Contemporaine, CNDC, Angers, France, with training in Contemporary Dance Techniques, Kinesiology, Dance History, Contact Improv and Dance Pedagogy. She practiced, taught and choreographed Contemporary dance for well over 20 years in South Africa (1985-2008) to students and dancers at various dance companies, university departments and at the Dance Factory in Johannesburg to dancers from Soweto.
She founded her own dance company DNA Dance Theatre (early 2000) and Walking Gusto Productions - multimedia dance theatre company (2000-2008).Productions - multimedia dance theatre company (2000-2008). Funded by the National Arts Council South Africa. Here she was the dancer, dance teacher, choreographer, Artistic Director, Company Manager and Fundraiser where she created a new work each year for my company, for the Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.
She toured her company in South Africa and internationally. Highlights: performed a solo sandstone at the Sodra Teatern, Sweden (1993), and choreographed written in blood (20 mins) in 2000. This was choreographed on the State Theatre Dance Co. and was the winner of le Prix d’Auteur du Conseil Général Seine-Saint-Denis. It was performed at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis in Paris, France 2000. written in blood won the Second National Choreographic competition run by the State Theatre in 1998 and was a finalist in the Afrique en Creation Competition in Madagascar, 1999.
In 2012 she co-founded Screendance Africa - PTY (Ltd) (2012-2019) with Dominique Jossie in CapeTown where we were dedicated to dance on screen in Africa made by Africans. They curated for many international Screendance Festivals, including Cinedans and Tanzrauchen in Wuppertal Germany amongst others in USA, South America, Hong Kong, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, South Africa and the UK.
Since now lives in Malmö Sweden, and since 2021 she has worked on:
GINSLOV MEDIA STUDIO: http://www.jginslov.com/ginslov-media-studio.html for Screendance workshops, Online Screendance coaching and mentoring, Freelance Filming and editing services and Deep Flow workshops online and in the studio. Relaunched 2023.
CATALYSTS - Somatic Resonance developed at the Inter Arts Centre Malmö: https://www.iac.lu.se/projects/bodily-interfaces/ The project is an AR/MR/AI and Screendance collaboration with Susan Kozel (Malmö University), choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir and AR/AI designer Keith Lim. It premiered 22 February 2022 in Berlin at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry
See: https://www.somaticarchiving.org/work/catalysts-somatic-resonance
Nanocosmic Aesthetics: Scatterdance, a collaboration with Keith Lim and nuclear scientist Emil Rofors, selected for the Open Call ESS & InterArts Centre Residency in Malmö, exploring Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS), the embodiment of data and neutronic imagery, using AR/VR technologies to create a new visual aesthetic. www.iac.lu.se/news/ess-residency-artists-selected/
In January 2022 she joined the School of Arts and Communication, K3 Malmö University, Sweden, as a Media and Communications Master's Thesis Supervisor and Examiner to12 Masters Students.
She conducted online Screendance facilitation for MA and Third Year Choreography Dance students at the Institute for Creative Arts and Interdisciplinary Institute in the University of Cape Town’s Humanities Faculty (2019-2021).
See CV or bio and texts for publications and other research collaborations, installations and events.
