A Dancer’s Rebellion

Jackï Job is a dancer, choreographer, theatre-maker, director, producer, and academic at the University of Cape Town. Since 1994, she has created over 80 works and collaborated internationally across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the U.S.A. She is the African pioneer of the form of Japanese dance theater known as Butoh. Gillian Mitchell talks to Job about her monograph Choreographing Rebellion, and the ways in which sustained creative work and specifically dance can make meaning in our lives.