jess pretty

CHOREOGRAPHER

jess pretty

REHEARSALS

January 6-23, 2025

12:00pm - 4:00pm

TU Dance Center

2121 University Ave W, St. Paul, MN 55114

PERFORMANCES

Friday, January 24th:  7:30pm

Saturday, January 25th:  12:00 PM

Approximate run time: 50 minutes

Park Square Theater

20 W 7th Place

St Paul, MN 55102

About the Choreographer:

 jess pretty is on a quest for pleasure that transcends time and the spaces she claims to reside in. her practices include writing, teaching, cooking, singing, conjuring, and dancing.

pretty received an MFA in Dance with a minor in Queer Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. she has shown her work at the Chocolate Factory Theater, La Mama Experimental Theater Club (2017 La Mama Moves Festival), New York Live Arts (as a 2016/17 Fresh Tracks artist), CATCH!, Gibney Dance Center, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, the CURRENT SESSIONS, panoply performing arts space, Green Street Studios, and three ACDA conferences. pretty has been an artist-in-residence at Kent State (2017), the Chocolate Factory Theatre, and the Center for Performance Research (2019–2020) and was a 2020 member of the Queer Art Fellowship. pretty has collaborated and been a part of the works of Will Rawls, Claudia Rankine, Kevin Beasley, Okwui Okpokwasili, Peter Born, Catherine Gallasso, David Thomson, Katie Workum, Niall Jones, Jennifer Monson, Cynthia Oliver, Leslie Cuyjet and Dianne McIntyre. pretty is the Director of AUNTS; a punk/DIY performance series that hosts events/festivals/shows to highlight the works of experimental dance makers in NYC and beyond.

pretty currently lives in Minneapolis, MN, where she is an assistant professor of dance at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.