event
Thinking Bodies, Dancing Minds
10 November 2026 - 19 November 2026
Dates: 18- 19 November 2026
Tea: 09:30-10:00
Start: 10:00-13:00
Showcase/Performance:
19 November 14:30-15:30
(Applicants need to know and consent that a part of the dance masterclass includes a practical exercise in the form of a showcase that they will need to partake in. There will be an audience in attendance. No cover charge; thus, no fee will be paid to any artists for the work.)
15 Participants will be selected.
About this Master class
What do you see? What do you understand? What else might you come to know? What happens when we begin to experience our bodies differently? When feeling becomes a way of thinking, seeing becomes a way of questioning, and movement opens possibilities beyond the familiar?
Thinking Bodies, Dancing Minds introduces REP (Reorienting Perception), an original psychophysical method developed through choreographic practice and rooted in the Japanese avant-garde dance form, Butoh. Designed for creative professionals across disciplines, this experiential workshop invites participants to explore non human-centred configurations of the body, realising it as a site of imagination, inquiry and discovery. Through guided encounters with sensation, perception and movement, participants are encouraged to unsettle habitual ways of seeing, thinking and knowing, opening new possibilities for creative practice.
You don't need to know how to dance. You simply need the curiosity to know your body differently.
Feeling. Seeing. Knowing. Becoming.
Who is it for
Designed for creative professionals across disciplines, this experiential workshop invites participants to explore the body as a site of imagination, inquiry and discovery. Dress in comfortable clothing that does not inhibit movement. Remember, You don't need to know how to dance. You simply need the curiosity to know your body differently.
Biography
jackï job is a dancer, choreographer, theatre-maker, director, producer, and academic at the University of Cape Town. Her independent career spans solo performances, choreographies for film, TV commercials, opera and theatre productions. Since 1994, she has created over 80 works and collaborated internationally across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the U.S.A. Her research reimagines the body beyond socio-political and human-centric constructs, engaging indigenous knowledge systems and everyday practices to develop unique choreographies and performance processes. Her work intersects feminist decolonial discourse, soma-aesthetics, philosophy, theatre, interspecies perfo mance, and Butoh. She is the pioneer of Butoh in Africa, and the creator of an original embodied method, REP (Reorienting Perception). She holds a PhD and is an Associate Professor at UCT. Her monograph, Choreographing Rebellion has been published by Bloomsbury, UK in 2026.