JCWK Dance Lab

Welcome to the virtual home of JCWK Dance Lab!

To learn more about the Greater Reading Area Dance Exchange Festival on March 13-15, please visit the GRADE Festival tab!

Click on Upcoming Events  for future performances, classes, conferences, & media appearances.

Interested in information about our performances how we engage in STEAM research?

• • Performance Projects
  • Reflections from beyond the studio: Fieldnotes, our director’s blog,
  • The socials – YouTube and Instagram. 

Move with us & explore what we offer! Click on Education and Workshops

Get JCWK Dance Lab inspired merch here. 

To financially support our work, click here  or here to donate through PayPal. 

Stay connected! Email [email protected] (or [email protected]).

Join us for 23: The Aftermath of Gun Violence. 

Inspired by community stories of profound loss, grief, and healing, JCWK Dance Lab joins forces with RIZE Youth Arts Program, Berks4Peace, Alvernia University, and other community members in a multi-disciplinary event.

23: The Aftermath of Gun Violence and The Grief Project premiered in April 2025.

Click here for the event link, tickets, and to learn more. 

 

JCWK Dance Lab presents Regeneration, a multi-media performance event combining science, contemporary dance, new music, visual art, and storytelling. Inspired by Rodale Institute’s soil regeneration research, this STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) event also reflects on cultural regeneration as we move forward from the pandemic.

Regeneration premiered at Alvernia University’s Francis Hall Theatre in April 2024.

To visit the virtual page of Regeneration, learn more about the work and process, and meet the collaborative team, click here. 

Dark Adaptation is a multi-media, STEAM inspired event that combines contemporary dance, music, visual art, and astronomy. The World Premier was Sunday, April 23, 2023 at Alvernia University in Reading, PA.

For more information, including tickets, please click here. 

Support JCWK Dance Lab AND demonstrate your investment in creating positive social change through Joy, Connections, Wellness and Kinesthetic stories!

Click here to be taken to JCWK Dance Lab’s Merch Store. 

Thank you to everyone who shared HOMEbody with us in Philadelphia!

Here are the reviews:

“Inventive neoclassical moments with sharp unison jumps, lithe transitional steps, and dramatic lifts frame the individual stories of the dancers…. For those not familiar with Warchal-King’s work, this piece exemplifies her strong sense of collaborative energy with her dancers.  The ballet admirably sustains a cohesive dramatic arc over 35 minutes, with palpable synergy among the dancers… the choreography and the performances were dynamic enough that you really didn’t need to know anything about it to be completely drawn in. And just as much as anything, that is the mark of a choreographer who knows that in the end the dance is the thing that ultimately drives it all home.” ~by Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal from PhiladelphiaDance.org

“HOMEbody is a piece that abstracts and distills its central concept….. ideas behind the work are subtly referenced throughout, rather than shoved in my face. I too find a sense of home in unexpected places during the performance: in a breath, or a leg held in the air, or a supportive gaze…. HOMEbody is packed with a huge lexicon of movement…. the dance aesthetically cohesive…. There is a language in HOMEbody, even if I can’t decipher it. I’m okay with this; I know I’m seeing someone’s idea of home, and that is enough….riveting….” ~ from thINKingDANCE by Leslie Bush

“Impressionistic… powerful… visually appealing and wholehearted dancing” ~from The Broad Street Review by Melissa Strong