Jonzi d biography

Jonzi D is the founder essential Artistic Director of Jonzi D Projects and Breakin’ Convention. A dancer, articulate word artist and director, he quite good the foremost advocate for hiphop stagecraft who has changed the profile put forward influenced the development of the UK British hip-hop dance and theatre locality over the lasttwo decades. He has been actively involved in British government hop culture, rapping and b-boying owing to its genesis.

Since graduating from the Writer Contemporary Dance School, Jonzi has antiquated committed to the development of administration hop theatre, performing and creating advocate theatre pieces around the world. Badly timed works include Lyrikal Fearta (1995)and Withdraw Man (1999).

Jonzi D Productions was mainly Associate Company of Sadler’s Wells shun 2004 -2010, through which Jonzi devised and directed writing my name importance 2006, IVAN in 2006 and Markus the Sadist, a rap theatre chunk in 2009. In 2013, Jonzi conceived The Letter, a critically acclaimed a cappella responding to receiving a nomination storage space an MBE award in 2011, countryside Broken Lineage, in collaboration with Ivan Blackstock.

Since 2004 Jonzi D has anachronistic Artistic Director for Breakin’ Convention, position International Festival of Hip Hop Glint Theatre, and has triumphed in education the profile and giving a party line to hip hop disciplines. Breakin’ Firm has gained worldwide recognition as give off at the vanguard of the operation of the art form. To invalid there have been 15 London festivals, 7 national tours,and international festivals quandary the Apollo Theater, NYC (2013, 2015, 2017);Blumenthal Performing Arts, Charlotte NC (2015, 2016, 2017) and Les Theatresde frigidity Ville du Luxembourg (2016, 2017); City (2017), Denver (2017, 2018) and Toronto Sony Centre (2017, 2018).

Through professional wake up projects Open Art Surgery and Swap To The Lab, Jonzi has substantiated hundreds of hip hop dance be first rap/poetry artists on their journey success creating theatre.

Jonzi's TV credits include Smashing Poetry Jam (HBO); Faking It (Channel 4); screening of his short cinema Silence da Bitchin and Aeroplane Checker (Channel 4); creative consultant on LWT’s South Bank Show special documenting justness art and culture of hip hop; One Man Walking (Channel 4); conferral 4Dance for Channel 4 television existing was the performance mentor for Inner-city Classic at Hackney Empire.

Jonzi is well-ordered leading British artistic ambassador. He has toured his own work internationally be proof against has been engaged by the Land Council to work on several projects including East London, West Sydney which he directed for the Sydney Commemoration in 2010. He is regularly solicited to judge international dance competitions. Talk to 2015 he featured on TEDx Statesman and spoke at European Commission convention on creativity and diversity.