PRESS
Drawn to Drone for Scottish Ballet (2016)
"Gorgeous and not a step in it - how thoughtfully different"
Dancetabs.com
"The piece is simple, physically demanding and an exciting debut for Webb"
Playtosee.com
"A mesmerising solo"
Bachtrack.com
"A compelling solo...Webb is most definitely a talent to watch for"
Glasgowtheatreblog.com
THE END (2016)
"Webb's dancers are compellingly full-on to the end"
the Herald
"Webb carves his choreography from a different stone and it is entirely refreshing"
Ian Abbot, writingaboutdance.com
"There's no doubt that the 3-strong company are excellent dancers with masterful control over their bodies. The extraordinary isolations they perform throughout the piece are so articulate that at times they appear inhuman; they look disconnected to their limbs whilst simultaneously being completely connect, the effect is fascinating to watch"
Acrossthearts.co.uk
"Deeply affecting"
Exuentmagazine.com
Inside Opulence (2014)
'Webb is a performer who lays every emotion bare, investing phenomenal energy into his slow descent into frenzied derangement. I admired the intense commitment of a performer who leaves everything on the stage and his two partners are equally spent by the end.' - Graham Watts, Dance Tabs
'Webb’s piece was both structurally fascinating and brilliantly and uninhibitedly enacted by the choreographer himself working with two charismatic dancers (Katie Armstrong and Jessica Whycherly).........Webb has developed an innovative idea about a show within a show, starting with a kind of kitsch “end-of-the-pier” frivolity – complete with sparkly, shimmering curtains and shoulder pads – before gradually deconstructing and degrading through the mental and physical unravelling of the three performers so that they end up like primeval, grotesque creatures slavering away on the floor......' Graham Watts, Dance Tabs
'a choreographer of immense power.....it's a dark romanticism he is chasing, so thrilling!' - Gareth K Vile, the Vile Arts
'a kind of thrash-metal reworking of Mary Wigman's Witch Dance. The three dancers maintain an impressive conviction as they sustain a long, slow descent in to madness, a twitching, fractured, whirling, juddering dance of possession' The Guardian
'Webb is the kind of artist who might get himself a cult following' The Evening Standard
Quartet (2013)
'distrubingly fascinating' - Bachtrack.com
'Webb is a vortex of restless edgy activity' - the Herald
Fleshnote (2013)
'Dauntingly impressive' - the Herald on Fleshnote
'his singular technique and frenetic energy are compellingly watchable' - the Herald
GlitterGrid (2013)
'The instrument here is Webb's own body, a bendy-slithery, amalgum of seemingly boneless limbs that he shifts into configurations that border on the physically improbable' - the Herald
Beta Wave Transport (2012)
'Probably the best of Dance Base's three double-bills pairs is Jack Webb's intensely mannered, ecstatic solo Beta Wave Transport' the Times (4stars)
'startling and orignal, Beta Wave Transport may make you feel dirty- but in a really good way' - the Skinny
'unsettling and engaging.... a surprisingly primal and visceral entry in Dance Base's often cerebral programme' - the Shimmy Skinny (4 stars)
'this was an unconventional but consistently gripping display of perfromance art -meets-dance' Edinburghguide.com (4 stars)
'Jack Webb's brave solo could easily be an installation in a modern art gallery. This compelling work is slightly disturbing: Webb's strong physicality contributed to a neurotic of obsessive qualities with idiosyncratic tremors and shakes gradually escalating through the work. a sense of play (rather than shock) gives this work a generous edge' - Acrossthearts.com on Beta Wave Transport (4 stars)
the Bravest Thing You Can Do Is Be Still (2011)
'superbly expressive, fierce technique and beautifully crafted use of gesture' - the Herald
'Jack Webb is a compellingly charismatic performer' - the Herald
' A marathon of physicality, Jack Webb gave the strongest performance in a self-choreographed, aggressive, Kafkaesque solo' - Graham Watts on the Bravest Thing You Can Do Is Be Still, Resolution! at the Place 2011 review
'Webb's Olympian manliness soon gave way to a diva-like cult of personality. Athletic and unusually for a soloist Webb was generous and vulnerable, not self-indulgent' - Katerina Pantelides on the Bravest Thing You Can Do Is Be Still, Resolution! at the Place 2011 review.
Video interview about Beta Wave Transport on Article19
http://www.article19.co.uk/06/hdvideo/jack_webb_beta_wave_transport.php
STV interview with Jack Webb - http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/going-out/events-info/216991-jack-webb-triple-bill-takes-inspiration-from-david-bowie-at-the-arches-show/
Interview with Gareth K Vile - http://vilearts.blogspot.com/2013/02/jack-webb.html
Interview with Gareth K Vile for the Skinny - http://www.theskinny.co.uk/latest/101199-jack_webb
"Gorgeous and not a step in it - how thoughtfully different"
Dancetabs.com
"The piece is simple, physically demanding and an exciting debut for Webb"
Playtosee.com
"A mesmerising solo"
Bachtrack.com
"A compelling solo...Webb is most definitely a talent to watch for"
Glasgowtheatreblog.com
THE END (2016)
"Webb's dancers are compellingly full-on to the end"
the Herald
"Webb carves his choreography from a different stone and it is entirely refreshing"
Ian Abbot, writingaboutdance.com
"There's no doubt that the 3-strong company are excellent dancers with masterful control over their bodies. The extraordinary isolations they perform throughout the piece are so articulate that at times they appear inhuman; they look disconnected to their limbs whilst simultaneously being completely connect, the effect is fascinating to watch"
Acrossthearts.co.uk
"Deeply affecting"
Exuentmagazine.com
Inside Opulence (2014)
'Webb is a performer who lays every emotion bare, investing phenomenal energy into his slow descent into frenzied derangement. I admired the intense commitment of a performer who leaves everything on the stage and his two partners are equally spent by the end.' - Graham Watts, Dance Tabs
'Webb’s piece was both structurally fascinating and brilliantly and uninhibitedly enacted by the choreographer himself working with two charismatic dancers (Katie Armstrong and Jessica Whycherly).........Webb has developed an innovative idea about a show within a show, starting with a kind of kitsch “end-of-the-pier” frivolity – complete with sparkly, shimmering curtains and shoulder pads – before gradually deconstructing and degrading through the mental and physical unravelling of the three performers so that they end up like primeval, grotesque creatures slavering away on the floor......' Graham Watts, Dance Tabs
'a choreographer of immense power.....it's a dark romanticism he is chasing, so thrilling!' - Gareth K Vile, the Vile Arts
'a kind of thrash-metal reworking of Mary Wigman's Witch Dance. The three dancers maintain an impressive conviction as they sustain a long, slow descent in to madness, a twitching, fractured, whirling, juddering dance of possession' The Guardian
'Webb is the kind of artist who might get himself a cult following' The Evening Standard
Quartet (2013)
'distrubingly fascinating' - Bachtrack.com
'Webb is a vortex of restless edgy activity' - the Herald
Fleshnote (2013)
'Dauntingly impressive' - the Herald on Fleshnote
'his singular technique and frenetic energy are compellingly watchable' - the Herald
GlitterGrid (2013)
'The instrument here is Webb's own body, a bendy-slithery, amalgum of seemingly boneless limbs that he shifts into configurations that border on the physically improbable' - the Herald
Beta Wave Transport (2012)
'Probably the best of Dance Base's three double-bills pairs is Jack Webb's intensely mannered, ecstatic solo Beta Wave Transport' the Times (4stars)
'startling and orignal, Beta Wave Transport may make you feel dirty- but in a really good way' - the Skinny
'unsettling and engaging.... a surprisingly primal and visceral entry in Dance Base's often cerebral programme' - the Shimmy Skinny (4 stars)
'this was an unconventional but consistently gripping display of perfromance art -meets-dance' Edinburghguide.com (4 stars)
'Jack Webb's brave solo could easily be an installation in a modern art gallery. This compelling work is slightly disturbing: Webb's strong physicality contributed to a neurotic of obsessive qualities with idiosyncratic tremors and shakes gradually escalating through the work. a sense of play (rather than shock) gives this work a generous edge' - Acrossthearts.com on Beta Wave Transport (4 stars)
the Bravest Thing You Can Do Is Be Still (2011)
'superbly expressive, fierce technique and beautifully crafted use of gesture' - the Herald
'Jack Webb is a compellingly charismatic performer' - the Herald
' A marathon of physicality, Jack Webb gave the strongest performance in a self-choreographed, aggressive, Kafkaesque solo' - Graham Watts on the Bravest Thing You Can Do Is Be Still, Resolution! at the Place 2011 review
'Webb's Olympian manliness soon gave way to a diva-like cult of personality. Athletic and unusually for a soloist Webb was generous and vulnerable, not self-indulgent' - Katerina Pantelides on the Bravest Thing You Can Do Is Be Still, Resolution! at the Place 2011 review.
Video interview about Beta Wave Transport on Article19
http://www.article19.co.uk/06/hdvideo/jack_webb_beta_wave_transport.php
STV interview with Jack Webb - http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/going-out/events-info/216991-jack-webb-triple-bill-takes-inspiration-from-david-bowie-at-the-arches-show/
Interview with Gareth K Vile - http://vilearts.blogspot.com/2013/02/jack-webb.html
Interview with Gareth K Vile for the Skinny - http://www.theskinny.co.uk/latest/101199-jack_webb