news about Jane Mason
Tiny Festival of Noise - Ashburton Arts Centre
Jane is performing as part of Angus Balbernie’s Tiny Festival of Noise with musicians Carolyn Hume (piano), Paul May (drums) and Sonia Hammond (cello).
With participating dancers Kuldip Singh-Barmi, Lois Taylor, Angela Praed, Klara Lucznik, Yolande Snaith and Helen Macphee and Angus Balbernie.
Whale Fall - Movement dramaturgy
Whale Fall by Sarah Blissett is an unfolding dialogue with a whale bone through text, sound and movement. The piece explores how new bodies form in places of oceanic darkness.
Jane has supported Sarah with movement dramaturgy in the lead up to An Evening of deep sea performance with artists Karen Christopher, Tara Fatehi and Jemima Young in Plymouth.
SEND support in Schools
To support her dance practice Jane has started working with a variety of young people with SEN needs in a range of schools from ages 4 - 16.
CAT - Exeter
Jane returned to guest teach Movement and Choreography for the CAT Centre for Advanced Training twice in March 2026.
STRETCH - Nottdance
Jane performed in Sophia Clist’s Stretch in St Mary’s Church Nottingham as part of Nottdance 2025.
Made from hundreds of strands of fine shirring elastic, Stretch is part sculpture, part soundwork - inviting you to move, listen, and play. As you interact, the space shifts around you, transforming and being transformed.
Collaborating artists Nick Burge and Theo Jackson-Clist.
Co performer Kim Boremann.
A Way of Thinking - Ashburton Arts Centre
Slow Light Falling was an evening of three performances curated by Angus Balbernie.
"Closing the night, A Way of Thinking by Jane Mason. I'm pausing before writing more, just to reflect again on how much this work touched me. Quiet, humble, elegant, deeply sincere; witty, heartbreaking, matter of fact. Exquisite. This was up there with the best of them in terms of performance experiences. An all-timer."
Kyra Norman
Featuring artists Winona Guy, Talia Sealey and Hannah Jacobs.
Image: South West Theatre Photography
CAT - Exeter
Jane taught the graduate dance day for the Exeter CAT Centre for Advanced Training scheme.
Mountview - Movement Tutor
Jane returned to teach Movement for the new cohort of CertHE Musical Theatre students in Exeter.
"...has shown me there is room for me in the world of movement I’m not a dancer but I love this - I can do things with my body, there’s not the correct or incorrect thing, it doesn’t exist..."
Art Week Exeter - Hands Full
Jane was invited by Sophia Clist during her Exeter Art Week Residency to improvise with her evolving work Hands Full.
Hands Full is a meditation on the endless tasks of motherhood.
Sophia continues to develop Hands Full into a participatory installation where the public is invited to take part in the making of the paper sculpture - drawing and writing on the component parts, shaping the paper and adding it to the growing sculpture.
More about Sophia Clist here.
Land - Reclaim Festival Exeter Barnfield
Jane presented a reworked version of work-in-progress Land for Reclaim, a festival of women’s work curated by Katie Villa.
‘I’m not entirely sure what I just watched BUT the performer was incredibly enigmatic and charismatic. I think I could watch anything they did all day.’
Audience member
Image: South West Theatre Photography.
Land - Exeter Phoenix
Jane presented new solo material as part of South West Dance Hub’s Scratch event in June 2025.
Fragments of song, text and movement.
Coming out of a need to keep moving as an older dancer.
Seeing what is left in a time of change.
"...I found your piece really extraordinary and moving….Thank you Jane for your courage to share so much of yourself so authentically and vulnerably."
Audience Member
Painting by Michael Dean Mason.
Image: South West Theatre Photography.
Return to the Body Workshop - Ashburton
Jane was invited to give a choreographic workshop in the context of a mini festival of improvised work called Quartet led by artists Yolande Snaith, Helen Macphee, Angus Balbernie and Klara Lukznik.
Photo from Yolande Snaith’s solo performance Whispering into the Blue.
Plymouth University - Theatre for Children Teaching
Jane collaborated with former Artistic Director of Theatre Alibi Nikki Sved as resident artists delivering a teaching module for second year Drama students exploring approaches to creating theatre for children and young people.
Creative Movement Class - Topsham
In the autumn of 2024 Jane ran a series of community adult dance classes offering a chance to explore different ways of moving to build confidence and connectedness.
‘It was lovely to meet new people with similar interests. I enjoyed the freedom and exploratory nature of the classes…I felt less self-conscious than I would have been in my 20s. I liked that I was more open and less fearful as an older person. It felt like a safe space, I felt supported by you and the group, I liked that I didn’t know what was going to unfold each week’.
Participant.
Mountview - Movement Tutor
Jane taught Movement for Mountview’s new CertHE Musical Theatre course in Exeter during Spring and Autumn terms from 2024.
"...this class has definitely helped me understand how far I can go as a creative person and how much I can do and so many creative things I can do outside the box - I also learnt to develop tools I can input in other circumstance, use them in ways so I’m staying in my body, using my body as an actor..."
