“We mostly know Boe as one of the city’s finest contemporary dancers, but here she shows us that she is also an adept dancemaker. And it was perhaps her highly nuanced movement choices that made Color sing. ”
Artist Interview
Inside look at Lawndale Artist Studio Program collaboration between Jacquelyne Boe and David Janesko HERE
Houston Matters with Craig Cohen
how the pandemic has influenced the work of four artists contributing to exhibits at Lawndale Art Center and live dance and multimedia performances March 26-27. Interview at 38 minute marker. HERE
How two Houston artist solved the virtual dance dilemma
Houston choreographer Jacquelyne Boe and visual artist David Janesko, created through a Lawndale Art Center studio residency. Their well-integrated collaboration melds media to make not just a virtual dance but visual art.
Read Full Article HERE
Westwood Trust Creative Chat
Join Claire Williamson, SPA Director of Education and Community Engagement, for a discussion with Jacquelyne Boe and David Janesko, winners of the SPA Houston Artist Commissioning Project.
Listen to Interview HERE
Arts and Culture Texas
DANCING ON A LAKE AND OTHER PANDEMIC MIRACLES, 2021 HERE
Companies Are Rethinking Live Performance—and Coming Up With Many Creative Solutions, 2020
Jacquelyne Boe and Danielle Garza in Lydia Hance's METROdances HERE
ARTS AND CULTURE TEXAS, 2019
“I am a part of a movement that gives audiences an intimate experience that is immersive and envelops their senses. We all bring our unique perspective to our creations and increase exposure of the performing arts in Houston.”
Read Full Article HERE
ARTS AND CULTURE TEXAS, 2017
"We mostly know Boe as one of the city’s finest contemporary dancers, but here she shows us that she is also an adept dancemaker. And it was perhaps her highly nuanced movement choices that made Color sing. That and Jeremy Nuncio’s original and evocative electronic score."
Read Full Article HERE
Good Day Houston, 2016
Choreography by Jacquelyne Boe
Full Video HERE
HOUSTON PRESS, 2014
"Here's to hoping we get to see more of her personal dance narratives in the near future."
Read Full Article HERE
Chirlaity III
Isolation. Transmission. Feedback. The world in a mirror - Chirality.
A live performance experience at Lawndale Art Center Chirality III, is a new dance and multimedia performance by Jacquelyne Boe and David Janesko.
With safety in mind dancers will be isolated in protective COVID safe pods with a limited 20 audience members per showing. Social distancing and face masks are required.
The performance will be comprised of a trio of dancers encapsulated by hexagon structures covered with vinyl, screens, and visual projections. A fourth dancer will be on the third floor in Lawndale’s Project Gallery performing simultaneously while being live streamed onto a partial hexagon structure.
Chirality III will be performed by Jacquelyne Boe, Siri Cyan, Rachael Hutto, and Lindsey McGill, with live video projections by David Janesko and original music by Jeremy Nuncio.
One of the many impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the drastic reduction in the ability of artists to share their work. This has been especially true for live performances such as dance, there is just no way to continue the present dance as it has been and to keep the dancers and audience safe. At the start of the pandemic Jacquelyne Boe and David Janesko decided that rather than being limited by these restrictions they would work to build something new out of them. The result is a three part multimedia work titled Chirality.
Chirality is a term used to describe an object and its mirrored pair, such as the right and left hands. It's used here in reference to asymmetries within individuals and screen mediated communication.
The new work began with a series of video calls in which Janesko would give Boe and a group of dancers a movement-prompt highlighting the spatial dichotomies unique to the bedrooms, backyards and living rooms that had become each person's lockdown-studio. Imbalance, symmetry and grid geometry began emerging as unifying themes and became the guiding concepts of the work going forward. Boe took recordings of these sessions and identified patterns and gestures unique to each dancer. She used these as building blocks to choreograph a two-part mirrored phrase for each dancer. In response to these pieces Janesko created a series of video feedback loops using a webcam and a streaming video application.
Image Backer Nash, Lawndale Art Center
Jacquelyne Boe and David Janesko are a collaborative team and current residents in the Artist Studio Program at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas. Boe is Houston based choreographer, dancer, and educator interested in collaboration and experimentation. Janesko is an artist exploring the emergence of complexity using an experimental approach that encompasses a wide array of mediums, technology and subject matter. Together they are exploring movement and drawing through sets of rule based actions in multiple media types.
Chirality II
A drive-in experience at Lawndale Art Center Chirality II, was a new dance film by Jacquelyne Boe and David Janesko. From the safe isolation of the audiences car they watched the film and a live video installation while tuning in to the original score on their car radio.
Chirality II was performed by Jacquelyne Boe, Siri Cyan, Sinclair Davis, Rachael Hutto, and Lindsey McGill, with live video projections by David Janesko and original music by Jeremy Nuncio.
This project is sponsored and funded in part by Lawndale Art Center, the City of Houston, City Initiative Grant through the Houston Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs and Houston Arts Alliance. Thank you Midtown Houston for the opportunity to create.
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Chirality
A piece commissioned by the Society for the Performing Arts Houston. Boe & David Janesko created Chirality, a new dance work, the final film was compiled from six consecutive livestreams and inspired by the quality of asymmetry in things that can’t be superimposed with their mirror image.
Dancers, in order of livestream:
LINDSEY MCGILL
BRITT WALLIS-MCGRATH
SIRI CYAN
SINCLAIR DAVIS
RACHAEL HUTTO
JACQUELYNE BOE
CHIRALITY FEATURES ORIGINAL MUSIC BY HOUSTON COMPOSER JEREMY NUNCIO. WATCH IT HERE
BOE HAS BEEN CREATING ORIGINAL WORKS SINCE 2014
Photography Lynn Lane
Perspective Exchange
An Annual Cross Country Collaboration co-created by choreographers from New York, San Fransisco, Denver and Houston. Coming soon to Austin, TX.
Metal > Water
A collaboration with 🕹Drone operation and programming by @timbergrove_official 🎼Original Music by Jeremy Nuncio. This piece is an exploration of the elements metal and water in the Chinese Five Elements Philosophy in the generation cycle.
Is it you or me?
Created as a response to the shootings in El Paso, TX, 2019.
Links to the sound bites HERE
Soft Jaw
Soft Jaw featured original dance work by Jacquelyne Boe in collaboration with composer Jeremy Nuncio. A series of solos, duets and trios, inspired by and in conversation with the installation of Visual Artist Alex Goss.
FREQUENCY
Premiered at the SUGA Art Gallery and performed at the Dance Source Houston Barnstorm dance festival.
“Great talent, unique venue, thought-provoking show. I wished I could have seen it all going on all at once, but having dancers in separate rooms at the same time left it suspenseful... kept wondering what was coming next through the door openings.”
— Frequency audience member Alissa Faircloth
COLOR 2.0
An Intimate Performance / Experience
Date: February 2nd and 3rd, 2018
Location: Flatland Gallery 1709 Westheimer Rd Houston, TX 77006
COLOR
Premiered at Flatland Gallery on December 1st and 2nd, 2017
"We mostly know Boe as one of the city’s finest contemporary dancers, but here she shows us that she is also an adept dancemaker. And it was perhaps her highly nuanced movement choices that made Color sing. That and Jeremy Nuncio’s original and evocative electronic score."
— Nancy Wozny, editor in chief at Arts and Culture Texas, a contributing editor at Dance Magazine and a frequent contributor to Pointe Magazineand Dance Teacher.
FREEWILL
Premiered at the Dance Source Houston 2017 Mind the Gap and was performed at Creative Minds Collaborative at Vault.
BIRTHRIGHT
Premiered at the 2017 JCC Dance month Choreographers X6 program.
Photography Leticia London
LOST AT SEA
Premiered at the SUGA Art Gallery, Houston, TX in 2016.
DREAMCATCHER
VauLt Houston in mixed repertoire performance Colluvia, Houston, TX 2016.
Premiered at Denver Dance Collective in Denver, CO in 2015.
“Jacquelyne Boe's solo soars thourgh a journey that is fresh and yet brings to mind a commanding young Doris Humphrey" - Karen Stokes
