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- Jess Allen
- Jess Allen is a performance artist from Aberystwyth. She combines long-distance walking art with one-to-one performance in rural landscapes. She has a PhD in biology from Aberystwyth University, and a PhD in contemporary performance from the University of Manchester. She trained as a dancer in between, latterly with an MA in Dance Making and Performance at Coventry University. She has worked as landscape officer for local government, dance lecturer (improvisation/somatics), community arts facilitator (AHRC Multi-Story Water), and as an aerial dancer for Full Tilt Aerial Theatre and integrated (disabled/nondisabled) companies Blue Eyed Soul and EVERYBODY dance (UK/US/Europe).