Jessy Dae Crist
about
Jessy Crist (she/they), from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, began her formal dance training at the age of 15, at Capital Area School for the Arts. Jessy graduated Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance Performance from Montclair State University in 2019. While at Montclair State, Jessy performed works by Martha Graham, Bill T. Jones, Shapiro and Smith, Christian Von Howard, and Robyn Mineko-Williams.
Jessy has worked professionally with Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Shcraiber, Alan Lucien Øyen, Dimitri Chamblas, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Company (Las Cruces, NM), and VOID Movement Project (Turkey). They joined LA Dance Project as a guest artist for the 2022-2023 season, under Artistic Direction of Benjamin Millipied.
As a freelance artist, Jessy creates their own work in collaboration with multimedia artists. Her dance film, GYPSUM, has screened at Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival in Los Angeles, and was selected as an installation for Currents: New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM. Jessy has been a space grantee at Motive, Brooklyn, an artist in residence at Moulin/Belle in France, and recently premiered her work VAMP for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
VAMP
VAMP explores femininity through an exaggerated, Queer lens; creating a world in which gender becomes forced, magnified, and ruptured.
Who makes the rules, and who enforces them?
VAMP examines this intimate space through a multisensory dance and music collaboration.
With support by:
GYPSUM
GYPSUM explores the relationship between the physical space trauma takes up in the body, paralleled with environmental consequences due to natural trauma. GYPSUM compares the body to the earth, following the "after" of a traumatic event.
How does one go on after the event has occurred? How to remember, forget, grieve, and make peace? How does one reconnect to a body that no longer feels the same.
Contact
jessydaecrist@gmail.com