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Jess Allen
Independent artist
United Kingdom
Jess Allen is a performance artist from Aberystwyth. She combines long-distance walking art with one-to-one performance in rural landscapes, using the walk to set up unexpected interventions with the strangers she encounters. Her work is characterised by conviviality, camaraderie, connection. She has a PhD in biology from Aberystwyth University, and a PhD in contemporary performance from the University of Manchester. She has worked as landscape and conservation 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 inclusive (disabled/nondisabled) companies Blue Eyed Soul and EVERYBODY dance (UK/US/Europe). She currently teaches on the Syrcas Byd Bychan community circus programme at Small World Theatre.