Jackie Snow

Jacqueline Snow is a British choreographer, movement director and teacher of actors. For over two decades she has been training actors for both the stage and screen. She specialises in movement, acrobatics and historical dance. Originally she trained student actors at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama . 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 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 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
Movement Director/Choreographer
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 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<ref name = guardian /> and The Observer guides to performing - Part 1: Acting.

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