Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies · jackï job

jackï job

Full Name

jackï job

First Name

jackï

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job

Biography

job’s predominantly independent career has been eclectic, with performances ranging from experimental solo theatre work, to choreographing classical operas, directing and choreographing theatre works and commercials, as well as hosting television shows. job lived in Japan from 2003-2011. During this time, she developed the application of Butoh principles to her performance methodologies. As a performer she draws from the indigenous as a way to develop the avante-garde. Her PhD study interrogates liminality from a corporeal perspective and how particular psychophysical performance processes and practice can contribute to the meaning of personhood and transformation in South Africa. The academic articulation of her works have been published in journals and volumes related to feminist discourse, soma-aesthetics, philosophy, theatre and butoh. She has been awarded with the David and Elaine Potter Fellowship, the Bunkacho Cultural Fellowship and the NRF Thuthuka Grant.

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.