Jayne Elizabeth Peake is Programming & Engagement Manager for The Exchange in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy. Jayne supports, develops and delivers socially engaged social science research through arts-based activities brokering relationships between artists, researchers, policy makers, cultural partners and the public. She has been working on research-based exhibitions and performance as part of the Arts & Conflict hub and across SSPP since 2016. She co-produced Traces of War Dance installation with Candoco Dance Co. and a ran a series of embodied practice workshops and performances as part of an AHRC-funded Project: Art & Reconciliation.
Jayne runs dance collective NW5Dance creating spaces to explore creativity through movement bringing diverse communities together and is part of the London Contact Improvisation Network. She graduated from the University of Warwick and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
Theatre and Performance Publications
J. Peake and Dr H Redwood, Contact Improvisation as an Embodied Approach to Reconciliation: Arts & Conflict at King’s College London. Contact Quarterly Dance & Improvisation Journal, Winter/Spring 2019 Vol. 44.1
Performance and Artistic Collaborations
Jayne co-produced Traces of War Dance Installation with Candoco Dance Company & Soldiers Art Academy, as part of Traces of War Exhibition curated by The Dept of War Studies performed at Somerset House, Autumn 2016.
She was also involved in curation of the below dance elements for Reconciliations exhibition:
Reconciling Experience with Trinity Laban Dance Conservatoire Fulbright Scholar, Roman Baca (choreographer and director of Exit12 Dance co.) November 2018
‘Attention’ by Touchdown Dance Company, as part of Reconciliations exhibition November 2018
Contact Improvisation Workshops with BMC qualified facilitator, Mark Reitema exploring themes of reconciliation though movement based, on-verbal exercises based on CI
Other projects include:
‘Home’ Poetry Showcase with poet Tolu Agbelusi, The Exchange, April 2019. An evening of performances of poems written as part of a public exhibition exploring Home, in The Exchange Video.
Contact Improvisation workshops with Mark Reitema exploring marginality and using embodied practice as a new method to explore group cohesion as part of the King’s Visual & Embodied Research Methods Network symposium, 3-4 June.