Commissioned choreographers 2024/2025: Jordan James Bridge

This year, Jordan James Bridge is among the cohort of choreographers collaborating with our students to explore a variety of dance styles, enhancing their versatility.

Jordan James Bridge is a multi-award-winning and nominated choreographer and performer who uses the medium of dance for stage, screen, and fashion.

He has been a company member with Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Tavaziva Dance, Michael Clark Company, and served as a long-standing dance artist with Company Wayne McGregor for seven years.

Alongside his extensive international touring work, Jordan has had the opportunity to be involved in numerous projects, showcasing his versatility and creativity:

• +/- HUMAN at the Roundhouse in London in collaboration with The Royal Ballet.
• This is Not a Show, a collaboration between Nick Knight, Gareth Pugh.
• Winged Bull in the Elephant Case, a recorded performance for BBCTwo & BBCiPlayer.
• SOMA, a live performance for COS Stores at Pitti Uomo in Florence, Italy.
• Living Archive – An AI experiment working closely with Google Arts & Culture.
• English National Opera’s rendition of Orpheus & Eurydice.
•Torus, collaboration with Nick Knight & fashion designer Fredrik Tjaerandsen. Next Steps, menswear fashion for Esquire style by Catherine Hayward and shot by Ruth Ossai.

More recently Jordan has been a dancer for Disney’s The Marvels, been involved with ABBA Voyage and has walked for Moschino SS24 in Milan fashion week for Katie Grand.

Choreography is something Jordan has been pursuing alongside his performing career, he was nominated for ‘Emerging Artist’ as both dancer & choreographer for the National Dance Award 2024 from the Dance Critics Circle and has won multiple film awards with his dance films Us, Locked Down & PARASITE under the categories ‘Best Choreography’ & ‘Best Dance Short’ in 2018, 2021 & 2023. Jordan is a commissioned choreographer at Györi Ballet in Hunagry for their Autumn season where he will be making a 40 minute length work inspired by scifi entitled Falling into Jupiter as part of a double bill.

Jordan is a consistent creative entity of Ballet Nights and has been commissioned four times artist as both performer and choreographer, creating bold and daring works that have brought critical acclaim and recognition. He is also an internationally renowned teacher, providing his signature Guided Improvisation method as workshops &/or masterclasses. He has taught at The Royal Ballet School, Royal Danish Ballet Summer School, International Ballet Masterclass Verona and many more institutions companies and schools.

Reflecting on the experience of working with the students, Jordan shares: “It’s been a blessing to work with the courageous and creative third-year students this past week. They’ve demonstrated remarkable growth in such a short time, excelling in both physical expression and discipline within the framework of my practice. With the next generation of dancers from Rambert School, the future looks bright.”