Jeanefer Jean-Charles

Using Movement to Empower and Ensure Overlooked Communities are Made Visible.

Jeanefer Jean-Charles – Artistic Director, Mass Movement specialist & Choreographer is a globally renowned artist. Since starting her journey as Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Bullies Ballerinas’ Jazz Dance Company (1990-2000), her work has taken her to over 21 countries. As Artistic Director of Big Dance, she gained recognition by the Guinness Book of Records by choreographing and coordinating 800 dancers in Trafalgar Square in 2006. She also runs her own project ‘Tomorrow’s Men’ – using dance as a tool to help young men re-engage in their education.

Career highlights include; Artistic Director for The Rugby League World Cup Opening Ceremony 2013, Mass Movement Director for Roald Dahl’s City of the Unexpected 2016, the Coronation Festival at Buckingham Palace 2013 and for The F.A. Cup Final Opening Ceremony at Wembley 2016. Choreographer for the award-winning The Return of Colmcille, Derry-Londonderry City of Culture 2013, and the film Engineering Happiness for the Institution of Civil Engineers. Movement Coordinator on all four of the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremonies, and Artistic Director of ‘Black Victorians’ – a dance production funded by Without Walls and produced by Festival.org and Jeanefer Jean-Charles.