JCWK Dance Lab views the practice, performance and education of dance as research. Much like a scientific process, JCWK Dance Lab’s projects involve brainstorming, developing an idea, testing that idea through choreographic investigation in the dance-studio-laboratory, and sharing the results through performance. JCWK Dance Lab’s director, Jessica Warchal-King, has been leading choreographic projects – for large scale productions and shorter performances – for over two decades. JCWK Dance Lab and Jessica Warchal-King are available for choreographic and performance commissions.
Choreography and Performance research projects include:
(Click the underscored titles to view more about the work).
- Digging in – Stories of the female experience and environmental sustainability:
- Trenches (2010)
- Space. Energy. (2011)
- Embedded Layers (2013)
- (in)visible veins (2015) and (in)visible veins: Rivers Merge (2015)
- Breach: Left Behind (2016) and Deshong’s Chester: Left Behind (2017)
- Stained Glass (2018)
- HOMEbody (2019-2020)
- Harvest Mooon (2021)
- Dark Adaptation (2022-2023)
- Regeneration (2023-2024)
- Exploring Home:
- In a Small Space (2006)
- Notes from Unexpected Lessons (2012)
- Untangled threads (2013)
- Rediscover (2018)
- Shed (2019)
- HOMEbody (2019)
- Still Hoping (2020)
- Regeneration (2023-2024)
- HomeFrontLines – Experiences of veterans and their families:
- The Protected (2015)
- Unspoken: Everyday hope (2016)
- (re)stringing fallen constellations (2016)
Interdisciplinary collaboration & connections:
- Music and Dance
- Microcosmic current with Chris Farrell, original music (2010)
- West Chester University commission with Chris Farrell, original music (2010)
- The Protected with Jessica Hardinger, original music (2015)
- Breach: Left Behind with Paul Fejko, original music (2016)
- HOMEbody with Paul Fejko, original music (2019)
- Widener University Dance Program with Widener Chamber Music Program concerts (2014-2019)
- Harvest Mooon (2021)
- Dark Adaptation (2022-2023)
- Orbit (2023)
- Songs and Poems (2024)
- Regeneration (2023-2024)
- Science and Dance
- (in)visible veins with Dr. Francis Weaver, Biologist (2015)
- Widener Dance Program with Dr. Francis Weaver, Biologist (2015)
- (re)tracing weathered etchings with NASA’s Earth as Art (2018)
- Widener Dance Program with wetlands research from The Wetlands Institute, NJ (2018)
- Alvernia University celebration of World Water Day (2019)
- Harvest Moon (2021)
- Dark Adaptation (2022-2023)
- Regeneration (2023-2024)
- Photography and Dance
- Breach: Left Behind with Ellen Rosenberg Photography (2016)
- One Foot… with Ellen Rosenberg Photography (2016)
- HOMEbody with Ellen Rosenberg Photography (2019)
- Prose and Dance
- One Foot… with Michael Lancaster (2016)
- Spirit’s Charmers with Michael Lancaster (2017)
- HOMEbody with Michael Lancaster, Jenner Shaffer, and Scott Schultz (2019)
- Songs and Poems (2024)
- Film/ Technology and Dance
- Rediscover with Jake Buczewski, filmmaker (2018)
- InterruptingMayhem (2020)
- Harvest Moon (2021)
