SENSE OF CENTRE
Imagine a home that is living and breathing, that moves from place to place, a home that we are born in and die in. The body is a home, can be a home and should be a home. Sense of Centre is a new solo that explores the concept of 'the body as home'. It explores the role of the body as the most constant and tangible element of our existence. When I consider the chaos of our current world, the economic and political challenges we face, the challenge of surviving in the world today and our ever increasing fascination with the digital and technological world, I am always drawn back to the body for comfort and remember its ability to ground the human experience in to a calmer, truthful and more sustainable place.
The notion of 'the body as home' is my way of expressing a much needed sense of belonging and connection in the world. Sense of Centre explores how the body can play its part in this, the body being enough, the body being reliable, the body being a vehicle for change and the potential of the body to serve as a sanctuary or a refuge from the challenges of our current world. Sense of Centre is a search for a deep grounding, softness, connection, tangibility and the need to be home in the moving and dancing body.
Concept, choreography and direction: Jack Webb
Music and sound: Jack Webb
Film: Jack Webb
Initial research and development supported by Artica Svalbard
The next development periods for this work are a 3 week project, May 20th - June 7th 2019 including a residency at Dance Base, Edinburgh (www.dancebase.co.uk/residencies-summer-2019/jack-webb-27-31-may-1428 (supported by Creative Scotland and Dance Base) and a one week residency at City Moves Dance Agency, Aberdeen, 15th - 19th July 2019.
The notion of 'the body as home' is my way of expressing a much needed sense of belonging and connection in the world. Sense of Centre explores how the body can play its part in this, the body being enough, the body being reliable, the body being a vehicle for change and the potential of the body to serve as a sanctuary or a refuge from the challenges of our current world. Sense of Centre is a search for a deep grounding, softness, connection, tangibility and the need to be home in the moving and dancing body.
Concept, choreography and direction: Jack Webb
Music and sound: Jack Webb
Film: Jack Webb
Initial research and development supported by Artica Svalbard
The next development periods for this work are a 3 week project, May 20th - June 7th 2019 including a residency at Dance Base, Edinburgh (www.dancebase.co.uk/residencies-summer-2019/jack-webb-27-31-may-1428 (supported by Creative Scotland and Dance Base) and a one week residency at City Moves Dance Agency, Aberdeen, 15th - 19th July 2019.
79 SPACES
79 Spaces is a work for an intergenerational group of people between the ages of 20 and 70 years old/young. 79 is a rough average of the age that humans could live to be. Working with this sense of time as a guide for a new work, 79 Spaces explores choreography and movement methodologies that explore life in the in between spaces, the value of time, how much time we have left, how much we've wasted and as we grow older how our sense of time changes. This work is part of and informed by Jack's current body of work exploring choreographic strategies that bring people together, paying close attention to the importance of support networks, community, connection, disconnection, isolation, loneliness, care of oneself and others and the never ending search for shared connection and its transformative effects.
Concept, choreography and direction: Jack Webb
Music and text: Aidan Moffat
Initial research and development supported by Creative Scotland and Dance Base, Edinburgh
Concept, choreography and direction: Jack Webb
Music and text: Aidan Moffat
Initial research and development supported by Creative Scotland and Dance Base, Edinburgh