COMPOSITION

Jack has over a decade of experience as a facilitator and collaborator with dance and experimental theatre. Performance works, for which he has composed original scores, have featured at: Dance Massive, Sydney Festival, Keir Choreographic Award, Darwin Festival, Bleach Festival, Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, APAM, Carriageworks, Next Wave, Junction Festival, Queenstown Arts Festival. He created the score for the 2013 Helpmann Award winning Whelping Box and in 2018 was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance at the Australian Dance Awards for Between Tiny Cities. These projects include collaborations with arts leaders: Nick Power, Performance Space, Branch Nebula, My Darling Patricia, Intimate Spectacle and Matthew Prest.

Building on this success in Australia these works have engaged international audiences with touring to international festivals and events including: Breakin Convention (Sadlers Wells), ImPulzTanz (Austria), Sziget Festival (Hungary), Tanz Im August (Germany), La Place (France), Compagnie par Terre (France), Freespace (Hong Kong), Skateistan (Cambodia), Hong Kong Arts Festival, Georgetown Festival (Malaysia).

Below are examples of his composition work see his CV for full details:

BLACK LUX

Composed original score for Lucky Larty’s Black Lux, which premiered at Sydney Fringe Festival in 2022 and was adapted into a film version presented at Sydney Festival in 2023.

KEIR CHOREOGRAPHIC AWARD 2022 - LUCKY LARTY

Jack created the original score and sound design for Lucky Larty’s entry in the 2022 Keir Choreographic Award, Exoticism.

TWO CREWS

Two Crews, is the latest work by choreographer Nick Power, that premiered at the Sydney Festival in 2020. It will continue its run in 2020 with performances at both Adelaide Festival and Brisbane Festival. The work features a full score of original compositions by Jack Prest. The compositions are working with the idea of deconstructing hip hop, breaks and club music and subverting it into a more contemporary and experimental space. Two Crews is a cross cultural exchanges between Australian and French artists and the development involves two residencies in Paris. The first in May 2019 at La Vilette and the second in September 2019 at La Place. The development is supported by the Major Festivals Initiative and the Australia Council for the Arts.

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A MON BEL AMOUR

A recent work by French choreographer Anne Nguyen for her company Compagnie par Terre. The work features original compositions by Jack Prest. It premiered in November 2019 at Thearte 71 in Paris, France.

Coproduction: La Villette, Paris; PACT Zollverein; Fonds Transfabrik – Fonds franco-allemand pour le spectacle vivant; Espace 1789 – Scène conventionnée danse.
Action financed by la Région Île-de-France; l’ADAMI.
With the support of: Théâtre 71 – Scène nationale de Malakoff; La Briqueterie – CDCN du Val-de-Marne; Centre des arts – Scène conventionnée pour les écritures numériques d’Enghien-les-Bains; Chaillot – Théâtre national de la danse; Centre de la danse de la Communauté Urbaine Grand Paris Seine & Oise; Scènes du Golfe, Théâtres Arradon – Vannes, Scène conventionnée; agnès b.; Théâtre de Choisy-le-Roi – Scène conventionnée d’Intérêt National – Art et création pour la diversité linguistique; Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers; CND Centre national de la Danse – mise à disposition de studio; La Maison des Arts de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne – Scène nationale; Théâtre Louis Aragon – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création danse de Tremblay-en-France; Théâtre de Rungis.
The par Terre Dance Company is funded by l’Aide pluriannuelle du Ministère de la Culture / DRAC Ile-de-France, la Région Ile-de-France for “Permanence Artistique et Culturelle” and l’Aide au fonctionnement du Département du Val-de-Marne.

BETWEEN TINY CITIES

Nominated for an Australian Dance Award in 2018 this collaboration with Nick Power has been featured at major festivals around the world. Since it’s premiere at Dance Massive at Arts House in Melbourne it has played at Sziget Festival (Hungary), Sadlers Wells (UK), Tanz Im (Germany), Sydney Opera House, NT Artback Tours, and has upcoming tours in the Netherlands and Germany. Featuring an original score by Jack Prest which has often been highlighted as a special element of the performance, with the Tanz Im festival using excerpts for it’s promotional trailer in 2018.

WHELPING BOX

This 2014 Helpmann Award winning production featured sound design by Jack Prest. Premiering at Performance Space in 2012 and toured to Arts House in 2013. It was also adapted in a short film for the 24 Frames Exhibition at Carriageworks in 2015 for which Prest also did the score, sound design and mix.

GYPSY

Gypsy by Lea Cazauran. Featuring orignial music by Jack Prest in collaboration with Ben Freeman. Sound Design also by Jack Prest. Premiered at L’Onde Theatre in Paris in November 2019.

BLAK BOX

Blak Box embraces the First Peoples concept of ‘deep listening’ which is based on stories, silences and the spaces that lie between. It is an innovative model that encourages audiences to step inside Black Box and simply listen to sound, ideas and language from a First Peoples perspective. BLAK BOX utilises cutting-edge surround-sound equipment and production methods enclosed in a space designed to be the perfect space for conversation, in this instance, an inter-generational conversation. It is an ongoing work by Daniel Browning and Urban Theatre Projects. Jack has been involved as sound designer and engineer for the premiere season in 2018 and the 2019 season Sydney Festival. The work includes a 6.0 sound mix. Jack has continued to work with Daniel helping present the work again in 2022.

CYPHER

Jack’s first collaboration with choreographer Nick Power with an original score of deconstructed and re-contextualised break beats. Created in partnership with Stalker Theatre the work has toured internationally through many major dance festivals and well as featured in Sydney Festival, Darwin Festival and Sydney Opera House.

 MANTLE

Jack composed an original score and provided sound design for this final work by acclaimed theatre company My Darling Patricia. The work was further adapted as an immersive installation for the Junction festival in 2016 for which Jack provided the score and mix.

COMPARMENTALIZED

Co production between Stalker Theatre and Unlock Dance Plaza (Hong Kong) for the Freespace Festival in Hong Kong 2014, featuring original score and sound design by Jack Prest.

THE TENT

Original score and sound design for 2009 theatre show The Tent. Premiered at Next Wave Festival in Melbourne.