OUTDOOR WORK

Dear All

I wanted to introduce our work to you.

Kate is a well established Dance Artist and has worked extensively with Contemporary Dance Theatre companies and choreographers Nationally.  Her own work is now at the forefront of her focus. 

At Kate Jackson and collaborators we create dance theatre work which looks at Contemporary issues over looked by society, as a project based company. 

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Teaching and Creation.

Kate has taught extensively in the community and privately for much of her career, book monthly classes in

Dance Theatre for kids,

Power Yoga

Contemporary Dance

Tai Chi over 60's

or Yoga 121.

Kate has a DBS, Safe Gaurding and is first aid trained.

Kate has been a Contemporary Dance Artist for 16 years - she has taught extensively and has performed with World Class Dance Theatre companies throughout this time.Kate creates work for stage too and has been working in the North West for ten years creating Dance Theatre which has been fortunate to have Regional touring, enjoyed comissions with local Colleges for the Moon exhibition in 2019 with Culture Warrington along with Commissions from Merseyside Dance Initiative who supported the creation of her last work which enjoyed its time in Edinburgh Fringe 2019.Kate has been working with the Health Team in Leeds City Council to work with rehabilitation through Tai Chi and Yoga for people over 60. Kate became a yoga teacher in 2014 and has been leading Yoga classes in the community for the past 6 years, she has worked with Leisure Centers, Yoga studios and has lead her own company classes for Adults, Mums and Babies, Parents and Kids, and in Primary Schools with Kids Yoga. 

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Past Works

Airplane of Flowers

Airplane of Flowers worked with new graduate Abbi Henderson as a female character with sound created by Lee Affren for immersive solo experience.

Abbi cooks, speaks, story-tells and dances with emotional impact. She’s a really warm and friendly person and we captured this in the solo. We want the solo to speak to audiences and people who don’t know dance or theatre but who can resonate with the issues we are focusing on in the work.

Creating the work so to enable a journey for the audience which embraces the experience of a closer proximity to be heightened and recognises that step of trust the audience take towards the work.

The solo speaks from a female perspective and is a small stand against the storm of violence against women and children in terrorist attacks and the need now in that light to hold tighter to our understanding of community and oneness as folk in unity. The solo celebrates the innocence of life, the great social part of being human that makes us all connected and loved and the ability within in us all to survive and recover.

Airplane of Flowers looks at the effects of terrorism, over a year and half of research talking with organisations, charities and communities who support people affected by terrorism the after care that is in place and shift of social consciousness towards embracing the change upon a community or a family or an individual.

Its deep stuff from our side and the magic we aim to deliver is through the subject landing with the audience through warmth, humour and emotion.

Witness 2016

Witness is a unique and immersive dance theatre experience that focuses in low level mental health states, depression, anxiety and isolation. Focused on the well being experience of audiences four characters draw you into their realities lead you into their stories take you into their worlds as the grounds of witness unfold.  The Dance, Theatre and Story telling will weave through the amazing grounds of National Trust, Tatton Park Knutsford journeying the audience to extraordinary settings and experiences. Designed uplifting and embodied moments take president. The cast are stunningly talented, the audience will walk beside them throughout, small numbers of maximum 20 people per performance.  With partnership with Merseyside Dance Initiative the work has manage to reach a broad range of audiences, Kates research will cover the wellbeing effects translated in the experiencing of performance. In this creation. Supported by Cheshire East and hosted by Tatton Park, this creation will aim to be portable and to visit different locations.

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SOLO is a theatrical and emotive dance of the everyday woman exploring her coping mechanisms in a fight to find clarity and a sense of being. Through visceral movement informed by universal emotions exploring truth and resonance in responses to life situations, she looks at identity and challenging accepted views of emotions which frame society.

Playing the compliments in chemistry of connectivity and lived experiences. SOLO looks at what we don't want to see and how facing the unseen we can move forward, knowing more about our intuitive selves.

Sound Designed by: Daniel Thomas

Video and Media by: Julia Griffin

Mentored by: TC Howard and Frauke Requardt

Choreographed and Performed by: Kate Jackson

SOLO was created in support of Arts Council England and Pyramid Parr Hall

SOLO is available for festivals, triple bills and gallery spaces small theatres, can be adapted for low tech spaces.

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HOUSEHOLD 

It explores our living environment and how we are affected by it through TV, film and social demands, commenting on popular culture. Commenting on how the advertisement era, continuously drills into us ideals of perception and manipulates our desires. The performance spark resonance and familiarity to the effects of our everyday living environments, by creating textured and highly physical movements, layered with themed intention.

Household can be tailored as a commission for 7-10 new artists and can inhabit many different venues and site specific locations

Lighting Designer: Damien Jackson

Sound Designer: Daniel Thomas

Supported by Warrington Borough Council and Pyramid Parr Hall.

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ALLONE

Is an evening for 5 individual and inspiring Solo performances, set in a Concert Hall or Large area to host cabaret seating tables and chairs, bunting and a bar, ALLONE allows the audience to sit together in a  social environment surrounded by a full evening of music specially designed to weave seamlessly between performances for your enjoyment. The set up offers the audience a chance to talk to each other at your table, to walk around, to shake off the traditional theatre setting and enjoy dance to happen around the space.

Suits venues with large spaces/concert halls and ability to create cabaret seating, can be commissioned for 5 Solo artists. Contact Kate for the costs and requirements to host ALLONE.

Co-produced by Kate Jackson Projects and Pyramid Parr Hall.

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Kate x

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