Biography Jack Gallagher
Jack Gallagher (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) began dancing under Jean Pierre Bonnefoux at Indiana University and Chautauqua Institution. He moved to New York to continue his studies at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. In New York Jack joined Nikolais and Louis Dance in 1990, ISO Dance in 1991 Tere O’Connor, Zvi Gotheiner and Neta Pulvermacher till 1993. Moving to Europe in 1994, Jack joined de Rotterdamse Dansgroep and in 1996 Dansgroep Krisztina de Chatel, Amanda Miller’s Ballett Freiburg / Pretty Ugly.
Since 1997 Jack has had an ongoing role as dancer, repetitor and teacher with Anouk van Dijk dance company. He began choreographing regularly in 2002 and formed his group- Bodies Anonymous (BA) In The Netherlands his work has toured 20 cities and been invited to the Cadance Festival and The Oeral Festival. Abroad. Bodies Anonymous has been invited to 7 countries and is currently collaborating with Istanbul Dance Theater on a new full length work for 2010.
Jack is a sought after teacher in contemporary dance and appears often in Dutch Dance academies and in HJS Studios in Amsterdam.
Jack is an autodidactic studier of philosophy and psychology and an independent dance researcher and fellow at the Danslab in Den Haag, The Netherlands. While at the Danslab, until 2011, Jack will be is busy combining Performative Speech Act Theory with his technique and improvisation background. Jack is looking for new parameters for the language facility of the dancer to be activated in pure dance. He is also looking at how pure dance can be broadened by Lacanian Theory of Discourse