Jocelyn Todd (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist currently working on the unceded Territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation / Ottawa. After graduating from The School of Dance's Contemporary Dance Programme in 2012, Jocelyn began living and working in London, UK. While abroad she studied extensively in dance, improvisation and choreographic pedagogy and process, as well as presenting her choreographic work in London and Suffolk.

 

Returning to Canada in 2020, Jocelyn's work has been supported by the Ottawa Arts Council, City of Ottawa, Ottawa Dance Directive, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. As a teacher, she combines varied movement and improvisation practices with contemporary pedagogies and encourages the uniqueness of each individual body. 

 

Jocelyn was the co-founder and co-artistic director of Dark Horse Dance Projects, a dance creation and presentation platform that spanned seven seasons (2015-2022) and focussed on supporting dance artists in Ottawa.

 

Some of Jocelyn’s choreographic works include: Time + Light (2017-2022), the A team (2017-2022), Gold (2020), light from a shattering shell (2019-2021), puff (2023-), bend (2023-), grains towers (2024-), carousel (2025-) and iddi (2026-). She has also created five stage works and two film works for pre-professional contemporary dance students and acts as a choreographic support for other artists' work and research projects, collaborating often with musicians, visual artists and theatre artists.

 

Jocelyn is deeply thankful for the practice of movement and creation and for the mentors and artists that she is grateful to know and work with.