jess pretty
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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.
This Project Needs:
DANCERS
Auditions: Tuesday, October 29th and Wednesday, October 30th
Audition Requirements:
More information forthcoming here, via email, and/or your department chair.