about

Jessie Young is a dance artist, choreographer, and teacher working between the Olympic Peninsula and New York City. Her practice moves between performance, choreography, and pedagogy, with teaching functioning as an essential site of creative research. Her work is grounded in questions of attention, effort, sensation, rhythm, and how dance practices are shaped by the places and communities in which they occur.

She is currently developing Working Beings, a collaborative solo project with Jeanine Durning through residencies and working periods on the Olympic Peninsula and in New York City. In Port Angeles, she curates Local Voyages, a seasonal performance series creating space for contemporary performance and artistic exchange, teaches Modern Dance at Port Angeles City Ballet, and serves as Director of Education & Artistic Engagement at Field Arts & Events Hall.

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