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Jess Allen
Jess Allen is an artist and aerialist from Mid-Wales. Her eco-activist performance work typically combines long-distance walking art with one-to-one performance. She also uses movement, sound, film, installation, food and crafts. She has a Ph.D. in quantitative biology from Aberystwyth University (2002) and a Ph.D. in contemporary performance from the University of Manchester (2018). In between she trained as a dancer, latterly with an MA dance making and performance from Coventry University. She has worked as landscape and conservation officer for local government, dance lecturer (improvisation/contact/somatic practice), community arts facilitator and as aerial performer for Full Tilt Aerial Theatre and inclusive (disabled/non-disabled) companies Blue Eyed Soul and EVERYBODY dance. Jess now teaches aerial circus (corde lisse, sling) and aerial yoga on the Syrcas Byd Bychan programme at near-zero-carbon Small World Theatre.