ARTISTS STATEMENT

Movement is my creative outlet from which I relate most natural to explore emotional and intellectual driven ideas. My work, no matter the subject, comes from a core place of breaking the boundaries that physicaly bind me. I am always revistiting the edge of insanity, that line that is created subconsciously, keeping us in check. This is the place that I find most interesting. The mental/emotional point where we go too far.

With dance I explore my natural abilities and push to embody the strength & speed that is most unnatural for me physically but easily envisioned in my imagination. I enjoy taking the visions that are humanly impossible, trying them out, seeing the possible and pushing to form it into the movements I envision. A familiar phrase in rehearsals is, “Ok! That is not physically possible,” most likely prefaced with an “OW!”

Jaclyn Moynahan is a native New Yorker, studied Modern Dance at SUNY College at Brockport where she obtained her BFA in dance. Jackie was fortunate to have studied and performed in works by Shapiro and Smith Dance Company, and Ellis Wood. After taking up a technical theater internship at Dance Place in D.C. she moved to Brooklyn to pursue her own choreography. She has taken her solo work to the GLUE Performance Series in Philadelphia 2002 and the Heartzz & Bonies Performance Art Festival in California, 2002.
In 2002 Jaclyn founded JaxDance a modern dance company that’s mission is to test the imp ossibilities of the physical through endurance, speed, and stillness. JaxDance has performed at such venues as Dance Space Center, Williamsburg Art neXus, Jennifer Muller/The Works, The Bric’s Brooklyn Dance Sampler, The Yard, and the Built On Stilts Festival. In 2004 the company was asked to join New Roots Dance Art to perform in their production of Lift, then it was back to California on an invite by David Wilson to perform in the Heartzz & Bonies Performance Art Festival at Highways Performance Space. JaxDance premiered its first evening length performance, What’s Holding You UP?, at Studio 111 this past July, which Jack Anderson of the NY Times called, “a choreographic obstacle course..” in which, “Ms. Moynahan invented deliberately awkward steps and used them ingeniously in her choreography…”
As well as working on her own work, Jackie has joined the Williamsburg Art neXus (WAX) as Executive Director Marisa Beatty’s Project Manager and WAXworks Program Director, Jackie also does part-time contracted administrative work for Troika Ranch, and stage manages the Moving Theater Company, she can also be seen serving coffee on the UES to pay the bills.
To learn more about WAX and WAXworks please visit www.wax205.com

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