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Updated 11/14/2017

Jessie Owens

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    VT

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

Jessie Owens is a performing artist, choreographer and a certified massage therapist. She the owner/practitioner at Fulcrum Massage and Bodywork. A graduate of the Wellness Massage Center and Institute in St. Albans, VT, she brings her experience with movement to her bodywork and her bodywork experience to her movement.

She is the founder of ERGO Movement, a collaborative performance project based in Burlington, Vermont. Her intentions within this venture are to make candid and accessible works, to expand the appreciation of dance and performance on a local scale in Vermont, and to foster collaborative relationships with other artists and performers.
Jessie holds a BA in Dance and a minor in German Studies from Smith College, where she attended as an Ada Comstock scholar, or a non-traditional student. There, she performed in works by choreographers Chris Aiken, Candice Saylers, Joy Davis, Katie Martin, and Annie Rudnick. While at Smith, her work, An Accidental Flourish Caused by a Sudden Change of Direction was selected to represent the Smith College Dance Department’s undergraduate work at the American College Dance Festival Association at Boston University in 2014.

From 2002 to 2012, she performed with Burlington’s Spielpalast Cabaret, a non-profit dance and theater company, modeled after German Weimar Era cabarets, and was the group’s art director and co-producer from 2005 until 2013. With Spielpalast, she played many characters onstage and behind the scenes, such as designing and creating costumes and marketing material, writing press releases and raising funds, and telling jokes, dancing the charleston and singing torch songs in German. She co-produced performances annually in Burlington and throughout Vermont, as well as the group’s venture to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2011. 

She continues to create and perform with ERGO Movement, and has performed on a free-lance basis with other Vermont-based choreographers and companies, including Hanna Satterlee, Murmurations Dance, and Joy Madden. She is the current Vice President of the Vermont Dance Alliance, a non-profit organization serving as a foundation for dancers and a public platform for dance in Vermont, where she is working to support dance in all of its forms. 

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Jessie Owens
Job Title: Dance Artist/Choreographer
Address:
Jeffersonville, VT 05464

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - General

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts for Social Change / Creative Activism
  • Community Arts
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 5

I Have Worked With

Hanna Satterlee

Performing Group

Date: 05/2017

Performed in Satterlee's Short Film Series- Seasonal Dance Poems for Spring.

VERMONT DANCE ALLIANCE

Arts Service Organization

Jessie is the current Vice President of the Vermont Dance Alliance. 

SMITH COLLEGE - DEPARTMENT OF DANCE

School (Higher Ed Arts Program / Department)

Recieved a B.A. in dance from Smith College in 2015, where Jessie attended as an Ada Comstock Scholar. There she performed works with facultly members Chris Aiken and Candice Salyers, with guest artist Katie Martin, and with graduate students, Joy Davis and Annie Rudnick, as well as her own works and other student work. 

Candice Salyers

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Jessie was a student of Candice's at Smith College from 2012 to 2015, and she performed in two of her works during that time.  

Artist Info

Touring Artist

State of Residence:

Vermont

Touring Artist

State of Residence:

Vermont