Curriculum Vitae
Teaching
2023:
· Erotic Arts workshop – Touch & play festival, Glastonbury, Uk.
· Movement meditation and ritual clay forming workshop, Emerging Hearts Camp, Gillingham, UK.
2022:
· Movement meditation and ritual clay forming workshop, Touch & play festival, Glastonbury, Uk.
2003-2009:
· Teaching many movement meditation workshops: – India (Osho Ashram, Pune & Global Arts Village, Delhi) & Scotland (Dhanakosa Buddhist centre, near Sterling).
Performances/Installations
2004-2007: Mediative dance /Art Performances (once or twice a month) in Osho Ashram, Pune, India
2007: Performer/dancer with Genius loci, a group of multimedia artists generating artwork in 12 different media as part of Spirit of the place - an Arts Council Funded project at Creswell Crags, Derby.
2005-6: Kypsa (Ripe), - A trio dance performance with Anna-Maria Lehto & Titta Court. Tour of performances in art galleries & hospitals around Finland (Kuopio, Helsinki, Outokumpu, Kemi) & Reykjavik, Iceland.
2004: Synaesthesia – dance performance, with sound world, to be experienced by the blind, partially sighted & sighted. Choreographed, directed & performed by myself, Finland (Outokumpu, Joensuu) & Stockholm, Sweden.
Jocasta Crofts
Education
2020-2025: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bath Spa University.
1992-4: BTEC National Diploma in General Art & Design, North Oxford College and School of Art, Banbury, Oxon.
1989: A Level History (B) English (D), Wood Green school, Witney, Oxon.
1989: GCSE Creative Arts design studies (A), Henry Box school, Witney, Oxon.
Solo/group shows
3.5.2023: Death of Camp, group performance. Performed at The Bleechers, Locksbrook campus, Bath Spa University.
1.4.2023: Erotic Arts Temple – Solo exhibition & workshop at Wild Goose Space, St Werburghs, Bristol.
26.1.2023. Shrines of Transformation & Mystery – Exhibition with Leonie Klein, at Michael Pennine Gallery, Locksbrook campus, Bath Spa university.
8-10.5.2022: Judgement Day - solo performance with public participation, participating in Unstable Monuments, an Off-Stage 2 production, at the derelict, young offender’s magistrates Court, Silver Street, Bristol.
21.1-6. 2.2022. Death Celebrations – Installation as part of Death of an Object group exhibition, Sion Hill Gallery, Bath Spa University.
2004: Beauty & the breast – A solo dance piece and exhibition of photographs created and curated by Jocasta Crofts, sound world by Ulla Makinen. Performed in public saunas with photographic exhibition in the changing rooms. Toured in Finland, Russia, Scotland.
Creative skills
2014-21: Attended upholstery classes, Stoke lodge adult education centre, Bristol.
2010: Completed a shamanic dance and mask making workshop with Life bulb alternative holiday week, Sweden.
2007: Completed stain glass window course, Windmill hill adult education classes, Bristol.
2003: Completed Moving camera workshop – as part of my Vocational professional dancer’s education, Outokumpu, Finland.
2001-2004: Vocational professional dancers 3-year education focused-on Improvisation, performance and Somatics, Outokumpu, Finland.
1996-2000: Created many costumes/props/sets for my circus performances and stilt walking gigs.
1995: Set up a club décor & UV face painting business, Ultra & Violet, with Sue Page aka ‘Groovy Sue’.
1991: Life modelling – 1-year full time work – Oxford, London (Sitting for private artists, adult education & art colleges/universities including St Martins, Camberwell).
Performances/Installations continued..
1998: Created an aerial dance company, Out of Ashes, with Bethan Jennings. We performed at Street art festivals around UK, Spain. Granted Arts Council Southwest funding.
1997: Worked as core member setting up Trolley Theatre, a political street art physical theatre company, Bristol.
1996–2000: Worked as circus & physical theatre performer, both self-employed and for circus companies in Uk.
No Fit State – Nowhere show, Cardiff.
Uk Tour with ‘Save the Rhino’, London, Lake district, 3 weeks at Edinburgh Festival.
Summer tour with Circus Scott, Sweden.
1996: 1-week intensive training in outdoor performance with Kneehigh Theatre, Cornwall.
Glastonbury festival - circus fields performing
1994: Fire noise - walking fire show.
1995: Goddess costume walkabout.
Glastonbury festival - big top shows
1996: Circomedia, end of year show.
1998: Solo circus performance as Jane Blonde.
1999: Out of Ashes, ariel duet.