Jacek Ludwig Scarso - Artistic Director

After receiving a First Class Honours degree in Performing Arts, Jacek completed the MA Voice Studies at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Since then, he has been working extensively as Voice Tutor in leading drama schools including the Arts Educational School, CSSD, the East 15 Acting School, the Circus Space Degree Programme and Teatro Integrato Internazionale (Rome), as well as Director of the Mary Ward Gospel Choir and the London Metropolitan University Choir, conducting performances in venues such as the Barbican Centre and the Royal Albert Hall.

He is currently Theatre Skills Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts at London Metropolitan University. He also designed and delivered the Dance History and Art Theory programme as part of the BA Dance at London Contemporary Dance School (The Place).

A performer in his own right, Jacek founded Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre in 2001 and has directed its productions and creative collaborations ever since, presenting projects across Europe. Such projects have been developed in conjunction with his innovative approach to voice, which is explicated in his book Voce per Ogni Giorno, published in Italy by Armando Editore (2005).

Together with the company’s stage-works, his directing credits include Medea, Prometheus Bound, Howard Barker’s Scenes from an Execution and Slawomir Mrozek’s A Fox Hunt.

While using voice as central artistic stimulus for his cross-disciplinary projects, Jacek continues to research the complex combination of text, vocal music and contemporary choreography, in both traditional and unconventional spaces. His research is developed both through his productions with Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre as well as through his academic publications.