NEWS
SENSE OF CENTRE RESIDENCY AT SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH
Photo by Amy Sinead Photography
In January, Jack will begin work on Sense of Centre with a one week residency at Summerhall, Edinburgh thanks to their Summerhall Space programme.
Through dance, choreography, objects, film and projection, Sense of Centre explores our primal longing and need for home, our increasing sense of loneliness and isolation and the longing for connection to others and ourselves by imagining how the body can be a home and a vehicle to remedy and explore these subjects. In a world that seems to rush by, is fractured and breaking apart, Sense of Centre is a moving and powerful return to the simplicity of nature, the moving body and the importance of belonging and connecting to our world. It is a journey back to the reliability and simplicity of the body. To our centre of gravity. To ourselves. To home.
PROFESSIONAL CLASS WITH JACK WEBB AT DANCE BASE
Jack will be teaching class for professional dancers at Dance Base this Spring Term, 21st February - 4th April 2022
Jack teaches a dynamic release-based class that focuses on sensing the body and deepening our physical awareness. Intelligent use of the weight of bones and muscles and swinging, shaking, folding, flow and making space in the body, particularly in the hips and spine are all used to explore and harness the potential energy that is contained within the body. Set material, imagery, breath and flow will all feature whilst finding a sense of virtuosity with ease and softness.
dancebase.co.uk/class-workshops-sharings/professional-class-689?fbclid=IwAR1GVmxUlgNcbwgCivR3mqhnIIQpcNV0TWFDd0HKgCNyKkXrvByWJxyWb6U
Jack teaches a dynamic release-based class that focuses on sensing the body and deepening our physical awareness. Intelligent use of the weight of bones and muscles and swinging, shaking, folding, flow and making space in the body, particularly in the hips and spine are all used to explore and harness the potential energy that is contained within the body. Set material, imagery, breath and flow will all feature whilst finding a sense of virtuosity with ease and softness.
dancebase.co.uk/class-workshops-sharings/professional-class-689?fbclid=IwAR1GVmxUlgNcbwgCivR3mqhnIIQpcNV0TWFDd0HKgCNyKkXrvByWJxyWb6U
Photo by Michael Dylan
RETURN TO THE BODY - #LOVEDANCESCOTLAND RECOVERY BURSARY
Jack is the recipient of a #LoveDanceScotland Recovery Bursary.
In November and December 2021 he'll be engaging in a 4-week solo project that focusses on the return to the dancing body, re-establishing his practice as a choreographer and dancer. He'll be dedicating considered, sensitive and extensive time to the practicalities of returning to dance and choreographic practice in the new normal, dedicating time to rebuilding physical fitness, stamina and dance technique whilst exploring new choreographic ideas that are rooted in the dancing body, simplicity and purity of movement and image and gimmick free choreography.
This project is supported by the #LoveDanceScotland Recovery Bursaries, presented in partnership by City Moves Dance Agency, Dance Base, Dundee Rep Theatre & Scottish Dance Theatre and Tramway. Supported by the Scottish Government’s Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund
In November and December 2021 he'll be engaging in a 4-week solo project that focusses on the return to the dancing body, re-establishing his practice as a choreographer and dancer. He'll be dedicating considered, sensitive and extensive time to the practicalities of returning to dance and choreographic practice in the new normal, dedicating time to rebuilding physical fitness, stamina and dance technique whilst exploring new choreographic ideas that are rooted in the dancing body, simplicity and purity of movement and image and gimmick free choreography.
This project is supported by the #LoveDanceScotland Recovery Bursaries, presented in partnership by City Moves Dance Agency, Dance Base, Dundee Rep Theatre & Scottish Dance Theatre and Tramway. Supported by the Scottish Government’s Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund
LIKE STONE
Like Stone is a new film by award-winning choreographer, director and dancer, Jack Webb. Commissioned by the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival as part of their My Normality commissions.
Exploring the concept of My Normality, Like Stone follows a life lived in soft focus. The space, the distance, the isolation, this is my chance, my normal, to live on in the in between and to resist the pull of going backwards, forwards, to make a return, to reaffirm. A life lived in soft focus is still a life. Regardless of it all, I bide my time, like stone.
Concept, choreography, music, edit and design by Jack Webb.
Exploring the concept of My Normality, Like Stone follows a life lived in soft focus. The space, the distance, the isolation, this is my chance, my normal, to live on in the in between and to resist the pull of going backwards, forwards, to make a return, to reaffirm. A life lived in soft focus is still a life. Regardless of it all, I bide my time, like stone.
Concept, choreography, music, edit and design by Jack Webb.
HAUD CLOSE: SCOTTISH BALLET
Haud Close was a Scottish Ballet Health, multi-artform project inspired by Scottish Ballet’s film Haud Close Tae Me.
Haud Close Tae Me was directed by Eve McConnachie, choreographed by Christopher Hampson and inspired by the poem Pas De Deux by Scots Makar Jackie Kay.
Using the film’s resonating themes of connection, reflection and visibility, Haud Close brought together choreographer Jack Webb, visual artist Brian Hartley, storyteller and dramaturg Philippa Clark and filmmaker Beth Chalmers, to work remotely with dancers across the SB Health network, to create a new dance film featuring poetry and visual art.
With thanks to Jackie Kay.
Haud Close Tae Me was directed by Eve McConnachie, choreographed by Christopher Hampson and inspired by the poem Pas De Deux by Scots Makar Jackie Kay.
Using the film’s resonating themes of connection, reflection and visibility, Haud Close brought together choreographer Jack Webb, visual artist Brian Hartley, storyteller and dramaturg Philippa Clark and filmmaker Beth Chalmers, to work remotely with dancers across the SB Health network, to create a new dance film featuring poetry and visual art.
With thanks to Jackie Kay.