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!”

Jackie is a native New Yorker and a Brooklyn based artist/resident, who has been creating and performing work in NYC and beyond since 2001. Over the last 10 years she has presented her work in theater spaces such as Dance New Amsterdam, Williamsburg Art neXus (WAX), Triskelion Arts, Studio 111, The yard, and Highways Performance Space, as well as at site-specific exhibitions including Pier 63, Transmitter Park and the Engine 212 Firehouse. Jackie is a Co-Producer and resident artist of Studio AIR where she has created and performed over 50 experimental works. In addition to exploring her own artistic endeavors Jackie is also on the Board of three local Williamsburg community non-profits: Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG), The Northside Town Hall Community and Cultural Center (NTHCCC), and Triskelion Arts. She is the Co-Chair of the NTHCCC's Arts Committee cultivating programming for the currently vacant Engine 212 Firehouse, which will be renovated into a community and cultural center in the coming years. By day Jackie works in the community development finance field preserving affordable housing in NYC.

Past Collaborators:
Shawna Emerick, Kelly Krucher, Nicole TenEyck, Ashley Mikal, Kimberly Goss, Leanne Schmidt, Janusz Jaworski, David Tirosh, Abby Bender, Ann Donohue, Allan Willner, and Stephanie Sleeper