Jo Cork Dance and Digital
Touch
A collaboration with Greta Gauhe and Deborah Di Megilo
An exploration of touch beyond the skin, this film traces how bodies, landscapes, and materials hold and respond to one another. Through movement and somatic practice, we follow an intergenerational collaboration that investigates touch as a way of relating across space, time, and difference.
Touch becomes environmental, emotional, and historical, a force of connection and transformation. In this tactile, shifting world, we witness the quiet drama of becoming, of leaning in, holding on, and letting go.
Supported by Centre for Dance Research.
AVH Audio-Visual-Haptic Screendance
A QuestLab Project. Supported by Studio Wayne McGregor. With additional support from UCL, London College of Music and Sense.
Audio-Visual-Haptic Screendance is a research project aiming to develop innovative wearable haptic technology which will add a third sensorial dimension to the act of watching dance film, transforming it into an immersive bodily experience.
By tapping into touch sensations, the AVH project will develop technology that will manifest the bodily experience of watching dance film, and that will help us to unlearn privilege-based perimeters around perceptive faculty. We propose to make fundamentally accessible work; not to make our work accessible. We ask of our ‘viewers', that they all - regardless of seeing/hearing ability - engage with the dampened sensorial perceptive abilities in their person, and in doing so, reawaken and re-learn them in order to develop an expanded relationship with their lived experience of the world.
Made in collaboration with film and gaming composer, Bartosz Szafranski; and creative technologist and haptics specialist, Ava Agakouchak.
The findings of the initial research were presented at Studio Wayne McGregor in early 2022, before the project continued development with support from Arts Council England up to February 2025. Further development is expected through to 2026.
Onus
A collaboration with Sheetal Maru. Commissioned by Milap. With additional support from Movema.
Sheetal Maru is a Liverpool-based dance artist specialising in world dance and classical Indian dance. She has been commissioned to create new work for Milap's 2022 programme.
Exploring how screendance practices might integrate with her dance practice, she is working with Jo to receive mentoring in creating digital dance work and screendance practices, and to collaborate with Jo in the creation of a new film, Onus.
The film is in the later stages of a worldwide festival tour.
Rebel Rebel
A collaboration with Anthony Van Laast and Roman Green
A short dance film.
This isn’t rebellion for rebellion’s sake.
It’s a story about how beauty can be born from rebellion - about how embracing it's energy can set us free and provide comfort in times of unimaginable pain.
A solo dance film with direction by Roman Green and choreography led by world renowned film and television choreographer, Anthony Van Laast.
Window of Tolerance
A collaboration with Phil Taylor
Window of Tolerance is an experimental dance film, co-directed and co-edited by Jo Cork and Phil Taylor, with choreographed by Jo Cork, and cinematography by Phil Taylor.
The work explores the demise of, what in hindsight, might seem a comfortable life by comparison to current circumstances. Taking inspiration from news reports and interviews, social media posts and viral internet content, the duo express the confusion, despair and morbid hilarity of coping with world events.
