Jacqueline Sinclair
Artistic Director of Joel Hall Dancers & Center
Creating is a spiritual experience for Jacqueline Sinclair. Her work tends to come by way of guidance from her spirit guides and Source. Once she learned that the magic of creating form from formlessness was coming from Oneness she began to communicate with more intentionality. Instead of waiting for signs and symbols she began to actively ask for them. She welcomed the energetic conversations. She feels Energy is everyone’s first language. No one denies that when a mother holds her child for the first time the two of them are communicating. Before we learn a verbal language we know how to energetically communicate, but when we learn verbal language, this skill atrophies.
Non-verbal communication was what drew her into a career in dance. Jacqueline Sinclair has been an integral part of Joel Hall Dancers & Center since 1990 and rose through the ranks to become Artistic Director in 2018. While finding continuous inspiration in performing the choreo-graphic works of Mr. Hall, she held a 30-year position as Dance Director for Maine South High School in Cook County, bringing the best possible pedagogy to the thousands of students she taught over the years. She earned a BA in Dance from Columbia College of Chicago, a MA in Theater from Northwestern University, and a secondary teacher’s certification from Northeastern Illinois University.