Jodie Randolph Dance
Jodie Randolph Dance (JRD), founded in 2012, is a contemporary dance group based in Southeast Michigan that supports the creation, development, and dissemination of dance projects. JRD functions as a collaborative producing and publishing platform. Fostering performance work, education initiatives, and practice-based projects that are collaborative, process-driven, and responsive to the moment in which they are made.
Rather than maintaining a fixed repertory, JRD operates through project-based creation. Artistic ideas are developed over time through research, rehearsal, and collaboration, allowing work to mature with clarity and integrity before moving into the world. Projects often live within improvisational or adaptable frameworks, prioritizing presence, relationship, and honest physical inquiry.
JRD brings together professional artists to explore themes of connection, conflict, belonging, and community, both within the studio and in relationship to broader social contexts. No matter the project, JRD invites dancers and movers into generous spaces for exploration.
At its core, JRD is committed to dance as a living practice: one that values depth over speed, collaboration over hierarchy, and sustainability over constant production.
Jodie Randolph
Jodie Randolph is a choreographer, dance educator, and artistic director based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She holds an MFA in Choreography from Jacksonville University and has spent over a decade developing work and educational practices rooted in flow, adaptability, and honest physical inquiry.
Jodie’s choreographic work explores themes of polarity, conflict, belonging, migration, and community. Her projects are often developed within collaborative and improvisational frameworks, allowing work to remain responsive, relational, and alive rather than fixed. Since 2012, she has presented work across the United States and the Caribbean, including at Hudson Guild Theatre (NYC), Huntington Avenue Theatre (Boston), Music Hall (Detroit), and Palacio de Bellas Artes (Santo Domingo). Her choreography has been commissioned by Brighton Dance Festival (MI), Dance Masters of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, Oakland University (MI), Snow College (UT), and ENDANZA (DR), and presented at festivals including DUMBO Dance Festival (NYC), Boston Contemporary Dance Festival (MA), Detroit Dance City Festival (MI), Michigan Dance Festival (MI), and EDANCO (Dominican Republic).
As an educator, Jodie specializes in release-based contemporary technique, emphasizing floorwork, momentum, directional change, and flow. She has served as an adjunct lecturer at Eastern Michigan University and teaches master classes nationally and internationally for companies, colleges, conventions, and festivals, including Platinum Dance Experience, Versatile Dance Company, Michigan Dance Project, Detroit Dance City Festival, Brighton Dance Festival, Wayne State University, and Escuela Nacional de Danza (Santo Domingo). Jodie works primarily with advanced and professional-level dancers, creating learning environments that prioritize choice, self-trust, and embodied listening.
Jodie’s students have gone on to study at institutions such as The Juilliard School, Marymount Manhattan College, Indiana University, Point Park University, University of Michigan, Western Michigan University, and Eastern Michigan University, and can be seen working on Broadway, in Sleep No More, Life and Trust and with companies including Batsheva Dance Company and New York City Ballet.
In 2012, Jodie founded Jodie Randolph Dance (JRD) as a platform to produce and publish performance work, education initiatives, and practice-based projects.
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