Jessy Layne Tuddenham
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Selected Original Work
- 2024 Waterworks / Performance & Community Workshop Residency / Agatha’s / Buffalo & Niagara Falls, NY
- 2023 Gerry & the Genius / A Stand-up Set / Commission for Lake Studios’ 10 Year Anniversary Festival / Berlin
- 2022 Longitudinal for Film / ON DISPLAY Video Documentation Residency / Lake Studios / Berlin
- 2020 You Did Great / Performance commission for PICTOPLASMA In Isolation / Online
- 2020 Longitudinal / With the support of Lake Studios Re-connecting Residency / Berlin
- 2020 Ballad / With the support of Lake Studios Re-connecting Residency / Berlin
- Ongoing from 2019 Standing Up / Living Room Performances / From Berlin to LA
- 2019-2020 Landscaping: Stories and Rest / Cashmere Radio / Berlin
- 2019 Gerry / Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art / Buffalo, New York
- 2019 Ode / Tipping Utopia Un-conference / Stolzenhagen, Germany
- 2018 Landscaping / Welt Ohne Aussen Exhibition, Martin Gropius Bau / Berlin
- 2016 Goodbye Kyla / Comedy Cafe Theater / Studio Sonne / Berlin
- Hypnotic Landscapes
- 2014 A Dance for a Subconscious State / with Barnaby Tree / Berlin
- 2013 On My Way Home / with Barnaby Tree / Berlin
- 2013 Meet the Dead / with Barnaby Tree / Berlin
- 2012 Bastard Hypnotics / Developed for Justin Kennedy’s Fernsehensüchtig / Berlin
- Biographies
- 2014 How To … / Sophiensaele / Berlin
- 2010 Slow Rock / dOCUMENTA(13) + ada Bühne / Berlin
- 2010 Jessy & Lei Present … Jessy! / Volksbühne / Berlin
- 2009 My Ultimate / ada Bühne / Berlin
- 2008 Love Song / ada Bühne / Berlin
- Jessy & Lei Present (with Ku’lei Muira Fahling)
- 2006 Poland Poland! / Film / Lichtblick Kino / Berlin
- 2006 Watch and Respond / Lucky Trimmer Performance Series / Berlin
- 2005 How to Dress for Modern Dance / Lucky Trimmer Performance Series / Berlin
- 2005 Living Room Seminar / K77 Theater / Berlin
WITH TINO SEHGAL
- 2022 Instead of allowing some thing to rise up to your face dancing Bruce and Dan and other things (Leipzig)
- 2011–2022 This Variation (dOCUMENTA(13), Manchester International Festival, Athens, Basel, Lausanne, Moscow, Roskilde Festival, among other venues)
- 2015, 2020, 2022 This Situation (Berlin, Amsterdam, Leipzig)
- 2021 This Exhibition (Berlin)
- 2015–2016 This Progress (Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris)
- 2018 This Is So Contemporary (Amsterdam)
- 2016 Tino Sehgal Carte Blanche at Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
- 2015 This is Critique (Amsterdam)
- 2015 A Year of Tino Sehgal at the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam)
SELECTED WORK WITH OTHERS
- 2022 Heidi Weiss / interbeing / Capital Cultural Fund Project / Berlin
- 2016 Mor Demer / ass-between-us / Dock 11 / Berlin
- 2013 Cinema Copains / Female voice in the Film, Fictions and Futures #1 / Bergen Assembly & 64th Berlinale / Norway/Germany
- 2013 Lupita Pulpo / NEW, Performed script reading / Ufer Studios / Berlin
- 2013 Compania Filumona / Women’s Score / Buenos Aires
- 2007 Zen in the Basement Dance Company / Herb and Alice / Berlin
- 2004–2006 HKF Projects / Ophelia’s Children (2006) / John Doe (2004)/ Berlin
- 2002–2004 Lizz Roman and Dancers / Company member / San Francisco
PRODUCTION, MANAGEMENT & ARTISTIC DIRECTION
Selected Teaching
- 2018 Xingwei College / Shanghai, China
— Dance, Improvisation and Empathy - Course for BA Students
- 2015 The Hub at Wellcome Collection / London, UK
— Yoga classes for rest study
- 2013–2018 YELLOW YOGA / Berlin, DE
— On-going Asana Classes, Yoga Nidra Meditations and yoga retreats
- 2013–2016 Inter-University Center for Dance (HZT) / Berlin, DE
— Yoga Hypnotics & States — Courses for BA & Master Students
- 2013–2015 SMASH Berlin / Berlin, DE
— Collective Effervescence — Lecture & Practice (with Josh Berson)
- 2012 dOCUMENTA(13) / Kassel, DE
— Ongoing yoga classes in various exhibition spaces
- 2005 European College of Liberal Arts / Berlin, DE
— Experimental course in movement studies
- 2001-2003 Mills College, Oakland, California
— Contemporary Technique, Ballet, Choreography/Composition - Graduate Teacher’s Assistant
MFA & BFA SUPERVISION (HZT, Ufer Studios, Berlin)
- 2015 Ivo Serra / P Dance + Entitling “Le sacre du printemps” / MFA Solo Dance Authorship
- 2015 Sandhya Daemgen / The Listening Party Experiment / BFA Dance, Context, Choreography
- 2014 Kyla Kegler / Histrionics of a Contortionist / MFA Solo Dance Authorship
GRANTS & RESEARCH
- 2023 DIS-TANZ-SOLO / Research Grant for Bodies of Possibility / Five-month award / DIS-TANZEN funding program, Berlin
- 2022 ON DISPLAY / Video Documentation Residency / One-month award / LAKE Studios Berlin
- 2020/2021 Nine-month career development and research grant in sound design / Berlin City Council Office for Culture and Europe
- 2020 RE-connecting Residency / Two-month award / LAKE Studios, Berlin
- 2015 Associate Investigator / Hubbub (Wellcome Trust–funded major collaborative research initiative) / Berlin and London
- 2013 Tanzstipendium (research grant) / Berlin City Council Bureau of Cultural Affairs
PUBLICATION
- 2016 The Best Residency Programme, Open to All: Sleep / Performance Research 21: 138–139
Education
University Degrees
- 2003 MFA Dance Performance & Choreography / Mills College / Oakland, California
- 1997 BS Environmental Education, Minor in Modern Dance / Western Washington University / Bellingham, Washington
Further Certifications
- 2015 Medical Yoga Coach, Modules 1-4 / Medical Yoga Academy / Berlin, Germany
- 2012 Yoga Therapy Certificate (250 hr) / International Vasishta Yoga Research Foundation / Kerlela, India
- 2011 Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Certificate (250 hr) / International Vasishta Yoga Research Foundation / Kerela, India