Jackie Snow

Jacqueline Snow is a British choreographer.

Early Life and Training
Jacqueline Snow (FGSMD, DIP LCDD, AISTD (Ballet), MAAD (Acrobatics)) trained as a dance and ballet teacher at the London College of Dance and Drama (the college of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance). In 1982 she joined the gymnastics, dance and theatre company as a performer. In 1983 she trained as a Movement for Actors Teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (with Sue Lefton and Trish Arnold).

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) 2003-11
Jackie Snow was the Head of Movement at RADA for over eight years. This full-time position included training the actors in pure movement (Trish Arnold, Litz Pisk). As Head of Movement Snow organised the Movement Department. This position involved facilitating the movement, dance, Laban, stage-fighting and Alexander Technique on the three year BA (Hons) acting course. Additional responsibilities included coordinating with other departments and the management team as well as teaching and movement directing.

Guildhall School of Music and Drama 1983-03
After gaining the position in 1983, Jackie Snow was a trainer of actors in movement, historical dance] and acrobatics for twenty years. She began teaching in Guildhall as an acrobatics teacher, when the Head of Movement – Sue Lefton, noticed that she had a real sense of the mind body and connection for actors and that she should develop her acrobatic work into the area of actors movement which she did to great effect. She trained to be a movement for actors teacher with Sue Lefton and Trish Arnold, and trained actors by opening and releasing their bodies in preparation to enter into the acting roles, both physically and emotionally.

British American Drama Academy (BADA) 1990-
Jackie has been teaching movement to actors at BADA since 1990 and continues to do so on both the London Theatre and Midsummer in Oxford Programs.

Other Teaching
Movement Training for Other Professions 'Clod Ensemble' at Bart's Hospital and King's and Imperial Colleges, London

Lecturer in Movement Training for Actors, Historical Dance/Movement and Animal Study for the Movement Project to level 4 and level 5 BA (Hons) with Acting students at the Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre

Lecturer in Movement Training for Actors, Historical Dance/Movement and Animal Study for the Movement Project to First and Second Year BA (Hons) with Acting students at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

MA (Hons) in Screen Acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama

BA (Hons) and MA (Hons) in Screen Acting at the The Drama Centre, London

Movement Workshop at the The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Movement Training for Teachers at the Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, China

Teacher of Historical Dance at the Regent's University, Virginia Beach, USA

Teacher of Movement and Historical Dance at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, London

Master of Movement at the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London

Teacher of Movement at the Rose Bruford College, London

Theatre
Master of Movement at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (1997-2000), teaching actors movement, choreographing and movement directing on shows.

Rose Theatre – Kingston; Love's Labour's Lost, Peter Hall

US Tour, Nottingham Playhouse and Barbican Theatre; Burial at Thebes, Lucy Pitman-Wallace

Regent's Park open air theatre; Twelfth Night, Tim Sheader

Donmar Warehouse; Uncle Vanya, Sam Mendes

National Theatre; Further Than the Furthest Thing, Irina Brown

Northcott Theatre - Devon; The Man of Mode, Matthew Smith

Polka Theatre; The Dreams of Anne Frank, Leona Heimfeld

Television and Film
Marie Antoinette: Sofia Coppola

Boys will be Girls: Channel 4

The New World: Terrence Malick

The Lost Prince: BBC – Stephen Poliakoff

Quills: Philip Kaufman

All forgotten (coach for Kirsten Dunst): Raverge Anselm

Movement Training for Actors, Methuen Drama
Written by Jackie Snow, Head of Movement at RADA (The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) from 2003-2011, Movement Training for Actors provides an approach to actor movement training fusing the work of the following practitioners: Sigurd Leeder, Kurt Joss, Rudolph Laban, Trish Arnold, Litz Pisk, F.M Alexander, Moshe Feldenkrais, Jerzi Growtowski, Jacques Le Coq and Belinda Quirey. Jackie’s practical approach and DVD makes it both accessible and useful for teachers and students alike as it illustrates the fundamentals of movement for acting.

Its focus is on the development of techniques to release the physical imagination and to enable the actors to transform themselves into the required character of a role. Chapters include Games, Pure Movement, Historical Dance, Acrobatics and Animal Study. The photographs and the DVD show Jackie with her RADA students, demonstrating in detail the exercises which are an essential illustration of the written text.

Fine-tune your body, The Guardian
In her capacity as Head of Movement, Snow wrote the article, "Fine Tune Your Body" – The Guardian and The Observer guides to performing - Part 1: Acting.