Jacob Boehme
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Jacob Boehme is a Melbourne-born artist of Narangga (Yorke Peninsula, SA) and Kaurna (Adelaide, SA) heritage. Jacob is a trained dancer, choreographer and puppeteer who for the past 10 years has worked with Indigenous youth in remote areas creating visual theatre combining traditional/contemporary dance and puppetry techniques.
He has just completed a Masters in Puppetry at the Victorian College of the Arts with a successful season of his show ‘Idja’ (meaning ‘skin’ in Narangga), exploring the collaborative possibilities between Indigenous storytelling conventions and Western theatre methodologies.
Jacob is now preparing to launch into a project supported by the City of Melbourne to create a pilot model for the practical application of teaching Indigenous studies in Victorian schools. The project focuses on bringing Elders of the community into the schools to teach art, craft, language and Lore and together with professional artists, helping students (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) to create their own interpretations of these through song, dance, visual and digital media.
Jacob’s artistic practice has a keen focus on the education and celebration of Indigenous culture within the Indigenous and broader communities and looks toward enhancing contemporary theatre practices through cross cultural collaborations with other Indigenous cultures.