Dancing On The Edge S01E01

Joanna Vanderham, the doe-eyed ingénue of Stephen Poliakoff’s Dancing on the Edge, has risen rapidly through the ranks. Still only 22, she was plucked from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in her second year to be the heroine of Sky1’s 2011 drama The Runaway, which bagged her an International Emmy nomination. Vanderham then carried the bulk of the plot – not to mention yards of taffeta petticoats – on her slim frame as the star of The Paradise, which will return for a second series later this year. She now has a Hollywood film under her belt, the yet-to-be-released What Maisie Knew, alongside Julianne Moore, and now a pivotal role in writer/director Stephen Poliakoff’s long-awaited period drama, which began last night.

What makes Vanderham so bankable, notes the Telegraph's Vicki Power, is a subtlety in her acting that belies her years. This was particularly evident during a scene in The Runaway in which the camera focused only on Vanderham’s face as her character was raped – and fear, pain, anguish and disillusion all crossed it in moments. She has an expressive mouth and, tall and beautiful, has the flexibility to play both ingénue and minx, period and modern.

There’s also a certain flintiness to Vanderham, something which manifested itself when she refused to do a nude scene for Dancing on the Edge. Poliakoff’s five-part thriller about the mixed fortunes of a fictional black jazz band in Thirties London, which stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthew Goode, sees Vanderham’s society girl Pamela Luscombe strike up a relationship with Goode’s Stanley Mitchell, a music journalist. Vanderham balked when the first episode’s script called for Pamela to enjoy a naked clinch with Goode. "I had to put my foot down and say, 'I refuse to be nude,'" says Vanderham. "It was difficult for me, because it’s Stephen Poliakoff and that’s how he’d written it and I love that character.


"But those images [of nudity] don’t go away. It was maybe my third large job and I thought, 'I’m not ready for that.'" Ultimately, Vanderham managed to convince Poliakoff that baring all might be counterproductive to how the character plays out. The drama as a whole is intriguing and gripping, and Vanderham gives a startling, standout performance as the mysterious Pamela, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, while her eyes – huge dark pools – give away nothing of her motivations.


Television Series: Dancing on the Edge (S01E01)
Release Date: February 2013
Actress: Jenna-Louise Coleman & Joanna Vanderham
Video Clip Credit: MVP



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