ABOUT

Jackie is a mixed medium performer, storyteller, dancer and workshop facilitator. Their creations are inspired by the multilayered narratives of Sovereign peoples. Jackie attempts to identify and interrogate Ancestral, Intergenerational and embodied story that is relative to Blak lived experiences. Focusing on Somatic, symbolic and Sub-conscious “bodies”, Jackie seeks to shed light in dark places, speaking to narratives that reverberate through the deep & unseen pathways of self and of the community. They have studied dance at NAISDA Dance College, Acting at WAAPA’s Aboriginal Theatre Course, & are working towards a reclamation process of Indigenous Embodied practices. Some notable projects Jackie has co-devised are: ‘The Honouring’, A self-devised dance theatre production, presented in its new evolution at Arts House for FRAME Festival, 2023; Chasing Smoke (Casus Circus); Wild Australia – Men in Chains by Jacki Sheppard; & Crackpipe Dreaming @ Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2019. They are embarking on an ongoing research project, ‘SENTIENCE’, a Cultural maintenance, re-connection and evolutionary project (Art X Science Residency through Arts House and the Science Gallery Melbourne). Jackie recently had an exert for a new self-written play presented for a reading at Yirramboi Festival through Ilbijerri Theatre Company’s BLACKWRIGHT Program and performed in ‘A Daylight Connections’ original new work ‘A Night-time Travesty’ (Yirramboi Fest 2023).