Artistic Director

Artistic Director


Justine Reeve is passionate about Dance and Dance Education. She endeavours to find new ways to ensure children and young people have access to dance, that creativity is at the heart of all education and that both Dancers and Teachers of Dance are given opportunities to realise their potential.

She has a BA (Hons) in Dance and Related Arts, PGCE (Post-16) and Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip) in Dance and Collaborative Arts. She has taught for over 29 years teaching across all age ranges as teacher, Head of Department, Director, choreographer and consultant (The BRIT School, BHASVIC, South Downs College). She has been devising and delivering CPD courses for Keynote Educational for 20 years advising dance teachers on syllabus requirements, demands and assessment. For ten years she was a standards verifier for Edexcel’s BTEC Level 2 and 3 and was  an A Level Dance examiner/moderator for eight years.

Justine has been involved in delivering the satellite CAT scheme for The Place and training the new wave of Ballet Boyz to deliver workshops for schools. As an animateur with Rambert Dance Company for over ten years she has designed, choreographed and delivered workshops, residencies, performance pieces and INSET’s based on Rambert’s company repertoire. She also wrote the 'Elements' Education packs.

In 2015 Justine became the Developer/Writer for London Curriculum Dance Module for Sadler’s Wells. Researching, developing, devising and writing the module theme and content in consultation with the Pan-London Dance Partnership steering group and the Greater London Authority Education team. 

She was artistic director of West Sussex Youth Dance Company for over 10 years creating 10 original pieces of choreography on the company. In 2016- 2017 she was the teacher adviser for KS3/KS4 Dance with Twinkl Education creating a huge bank of resources for dance teachers that are available to subscribers on-line.

Justine has been developing her choreographic voice with the support of South East Dance (through Business Development , Mentoring Scheme, Flourish Fund) and Pavilion Dance South West as a Discovery Artist for three years with Rambert Dance Company providing support as both a critical friend and with studio space. In 2014 Justine was commissioned to create work for The Ignition Festival and has created work for The Brighton Festival. She has shown choreographic work at 'The Showroom' in Chichester, Siobhan Davies Dance, 'The Point' in Eastleigh, The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton, 'The Pavilion Theatre' in The Brighton Festival, at Pavilion Dance South West (Cabaret night, First birthday and Scratch night), The Brighton Spielgletent, The Rose Theatre, Kingston and at 'The Place', London. Justine was also a visiting dance lecturer at Art University Bournemouth and a performer in both The Dance WE Made and the Selling Secrets trilogy for 'Casson and friends'.

Justine is an author and her first book Dance Improvisations was published by Human Kinetics in 2011 and second book More Dance Improvisations published in 2023. She wrote the Creature Educational resource on Akram Khan's Full length work for English National Ballet and consulted on their Khan Retrospective resource. For Russell Maliphant Dance Company she has written education resources on Two, Silent Lines and VORTEX.

She is presently a CPD course leader for Keynote Educational with 2024 being her 20th year leading courses. The creator of the 'Dance Teachers Agony Aunt' and 'The Dance Teachers Tool Kit' facebook groups providing support for dance teachers in the UK. She is also currently an external expert for OFQUAL and a Moderator/team Leader for WJEC's Tech Award. 


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