Assoc Prof Jacki Job
Based at University of Cape Town, PhD in Dance & Performance Studies. Competent, dynamic, energetic, lateral thinker, focused, autonomous, imaginative, scholastic, creative, with more than 20 years of professional practical experience. Noted for staging complex theatrical concepts in an interdisciplinary fashion. Accomplished in developing performance methodologies for dancers, actors and singers. Skilled in structuring academic movement-based/performance courses for universities and grass-root programs nationally and internationally. Offers specialist workshops in sound, breath & movement. Certified intimacy-co-ordinator for film. Fluent in English and Afrikaans with excellent conversational and adequate writing abilities in German, Japanese and French.
Research Interest
Interrogating how the application of non-western and indigenous performance methodologies and philosophies, such as butoh, can enhance performance processes and perspectives of the body. Developing theory and a philosophy of the body related to liminality and what it means to be a person in transformation in South Africa.
Awards & Achievements
2019 Awarded NRF Thuthuka Grant & NAC production funding
2016 Recipient of David & Elaine Potter Fellowship
2015 Impressario and co-producer of Grandslam - Japanese dance company, Condors.
SA tour: Oude Libertas (Cape Town), Catalina Theatre (Durban), PACOFS (Bloemfontein)
2014-16 Director-Choreographer of African Angels tours in Germany, Holland, Austria, Sweden
2014 Awarded NRF Innovation and NAC academic grants
2011 Appointed as interim Artistic Director of Jazzart Dance Theatre
2010 Co-producer of 1st Japanese-South African contemporary dance collaboration, Two As One.
2009 Performed duet with living dance legend, Yoshito Ohno (Japan)
2008 Created Spiral Therapy, a treatment/exercise program for pregnant women, endorsed by leading Japanese physician, Dr. Hideki Sakamoto
2006-11 Resident Artist at Session House, Tokyo
2005 Awarded Bunka Cho Scholarship by Japan Cultural Ministry
2004 Residency at Impulstanz, dance festival in Vienna
2003 Residency at Dancas na Cidade, dance festival in Lisbon
2002 Producer of Dutch/South African dance collaboration, Xclaim, with Dutch choreographer, Piet Rogie. Funded by Dutch Embassy South Africa and DACST.
1996 FNB/Vita Awards: Best Female Dancer, Young Choreographer’s Grant
Peer Reviewed Publications
2019 Translate(ral) Bodies through Daai za Lady and Butoh, South African Theatre Journal
2018 Butoh as an Approach to Performance in South Africa, Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance
2017 Life and Live Art: Reflexive Comments on Interdisciplinary Performances in Cape Town, Journal of Music Arts Africa
2013 Butoh as a supplementary course in Dance Studies at High Schools on the Cape Flats, South African Dance Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1
Specialised Workshops
2019 Intimacy Co-ordination, Tools to approach and sustain the making of intimate physical scenes for performance with consent and respect
2014 Butoh as an Approach to Performance Making, Focusing on butoh principles to develop alternative creative patterns and perspectives of the body, space and inanimate objects in the world
2007 Movement Dynamics, A self-created body conditioning methodology holding a philosophy of human-animal connections within the body
Solo Creations, Collaborations, Commissions, Residencies
Including:
1995 Daai za Lady, Solo performed in theatres, festivals & academic contexts in Europe, Africa, Asia & America
2019 And Then…, A solo performance embodying desire and compassion in the language of the praying mantis
2018 Zeitz MOCAA opening (associated artist),
2017 Of Dreams and Dragons, Collaboration with Japanese butoh artist, Live Art Festival (ICA)
2014 - 2016 African Angels, Internationally touring opera concert by Cape Town Opera company performed in prestigious in opera houses in Germany, Switzerland, Austria & South Africa
2013, 2014 Madam Butterfly, Marriage of Figaro, Movement director, performed by Cape Town Opera Company, Artscape Opera House
2011 TV commercials & films incl. Warrior (Intimacy Co-ordinator), Reebok, Standard Bank, Clan of the Cave Bear
2009 Conceived and wrote poem: Going Home
2006 - 2011 Theatre Resident Artist, Based at Session House, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Conceived and wrote short story: The Kiss
2003 Conceived, produced & directed 11min short film: Insomnia
2003-2011 10 full-length dance creations, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Faranani, Solo performer & choreographer for President Nelson Mandela & the Dutch royal family, Royal Carré Theatre, Holland
1998, 2000 Porgy and Bess, Choreographer, performed by Cape Town Opera, Artscape Opera House & Grahamstown Festival
With artists like Jacki Job around, fresh aesthetics can be developed. The Star Newspaper
Teaching Experience
In South Africa…
University of Cape Town Course content creation, Facilitation, Exam formulation
2018 1st Year – Foundation Course co-convenor, Performance Genealogies
2nd ,3rd Year – Choreography Course, Butoh (Theory + Practical)
2017 Dance Dept.
1st Year Contemporary Dance
2nd Year African Dance History, Body Presence, Contemporary Dance Technique,
3rd Year Performance
Drama Dept.
Butoh as an Approach to Performance in South Africa (Theory + Prac Seminars)
2012-2016
Drama Dept.
3rd year Theatre Making (co-ordinator: Jay Pather)
3rd year Butoh and Movement (co-ordinators: Geoffrey Hyland, Jackie Singer)
2000-2002
Drama Dept.
Theatre Making Skills to 3rd year performer and director students
Release Based Contemporary Dance to 1st, 2nd, 3rd year
1999 Movement/choreography
Opera School 2nd, 3rd year performer students
1997 Drama 1
Drama School
Practical course to 1st year students
1993 -1995 Movement
Drama School Rhythm & Release to 3rd year and postgrad performers
Rhodes University
2013 Masters By Coursework: Contemporary Performance Specialisation. Butoh Residency
University of the Western Cape
2013 Gender Equity Unit: ‘Performance Process’ workshops
In Japan…
Kanda Institute of Foreign Languages, Tokyo
2006 – 2011 English
Using the Arts and creativity to teach communication skills and cultivate lateral thinking to 1st and 2nd year students.
Centre for Advanced Studies, Tokyo
2009 – 2011
1st & 2nd year university coursework designed for Japanese students transferring to institutions in the US, UK, Canada or Australia.
Shure University, Tokyo
2009 – 2011
NPO university creating entrepreneurs through alternative education methodologies.
Ongoing workshops in Movement Dynamics
Temple University, Tokyo
2009 Movement Dynamics
Practical course offered to casual and part-time students in the Continuing Education Department
Chukyo Female University Nagoya, Nagoya
2009 Master Class
Dance Dept Workshops to 1st, 2nd, 3rd year students of personal repertoire
Gunma University (Gunma, Japan), JAPEW, Kagoshima and Tokyo, Japan
2005 - 2007 Rhythm & Contact Improvisation
Workshops & creating performance to 120 teachers of physical education
Waseda University (Tokyo), Tsukuba University (Tsukuba)
2005 Rhythm, Release, Contact Improvisation
Dance Dept Workshops to 1st, 2nd, 3rd year students
In London…
Rambert Ballet School
1996 Release Based Contemporary Dance - 1st, 2nd, 3rd year
Profile Overview
1988 Activities in Education, TV, Arts in South Africa, England, Germany, Singapore, Japan.
1988-94 Trained in contemporary dance and became member of Jazzart Dance Theatre
1993-96 Extensive community-based teaching incl Mary Harding (school for the handicapped), Dominican School for the Deaf and NGO’s based on the Cape Flats.
1995-98 Co-founder of Jagged Dance (independent, self-funded dance company)
1998 Founder and director of independent dance company, Spiral Productions
1995 Created more than 60 original full-length productions performed nationally and internationally
1993-02 Engaged as ad-hoc lecturer at UCT Drama School
2003-11 Based in Tokyo, Japan as a dancer/choreographer/teacher
2011 Returned to South Africa
Created Mama Dance Agency (agent for commercials and films)
Performing, choreographing, directing, teaching self-methodology - Movement Dynamics
2012 Engaged as ad-hoc lecturer at UCT Drama School
2013 Awarded First Class Honours in Dance research (UCT)
2014 Completed Masters degree (full dissertation)
2014 Director and choreographer of internationally touring opera concert, African Angels
2015 Dance project in Imizamo Yethu (township), in partnership with City of Cape Town
2016 Commencing practice-based PhD, UCT Drama Dept, Dance specialization
2017 Full-time lecturer/researcher appointment in the Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies, University of Cape Town
Mission Statement
To dance, question, investigate...create work at the global cutting edge and forge connections, collaborations and exchanges with artists on national and international levels. To always express emotions, passions, observations, with the utmost integrity and truth. To be fluid with notions, embody lateral philosophies that stimulate the imagination. To enable people to find, know and become excited about fulfilling their potential in life. To continue to integrate and fine-tune multiple roles of being woman-mother-lover-carer-teacher-artist-friend...in this performance of daily life...
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Video Links:
We All Matter - Infecting The City Festival - Cape Town March 2012
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