Jess Allen
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Performance artist |
| Location | Aberystwyth | Ledbury, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Jess Allen is a performance artist from Aberystwyth. She combines long-distance walking art with one-to-one performance in rural landscapes. She has a PhD in biology from Aberystwyth University, and a PhD in contemporary performance from the University of Manchester. She trained as a dancer in between, latterly with an MA in Dance Making and Performance at Coventry University. She has worked as landscape officer for local government, dance lecturer (improvisation/somatics), community arts facilitator (AHRC Multi-Story Water), and as an aerial dancer for Full Tilt Aerial Theatre and integrated (disabled/nondisabled) companies Blue Eyed Soul and EVERYBODY dance (UK/US/Europe). |
| Interests | dance, aerial, corde lisse, somatic practice, land art, disability arts, natural horsemanship, long-distance riding, equine podiatry,aerial yoga, running, wild swimming, permaculture, yurts and low impact development, vegetarianism |
| Favorite movies | Die Leben der Anderen, Amelie, Run Lola Run, Belleville Rendevous, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Be Kind Rewind, Being John Malkovich, Human Traffic, Stealing Beauty, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Donnie Darko, Solomon a Gaenor, Perfect Strangers, Cypher, A Life Less Ordinary, Beetlejuice, The Big Lebowski |
| Favorite books | Jeanette Winterson - The Passion, Douglas Coupland - Life After God, Michel Faber - Under the Skin, Magnus Mills - The Restraint of Beasts, Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan/Gormenghast, Niall Griffiths - Runt, Rose Tremain - Music & Silence, Ian MacEwan - Enduring Love, Hilary Mantel - Fludd, Lucy Rees - The Maze, Patrick Gale - Notes from an Exhibition, Marina Lewyzca - Two Caravans, Alan Garner - The Stone Book Quartet, Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials, Lucy Ellman - Man or Mango, Alice Thomas Ellis - Fairy Tale, Barbara Trapido - The Travelling Horn Player, Richard Mabey - Nature Cure, George Monbiot - Captive State, Alain de Boton - The Consolations of Philosophy, Steve Jones - Y: The Descent of Men, Bill Bryson - Mother Tongue, Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running |