Ayesha Jordan is a multidisciplinary performer and creator. She has a master's degree in Performance from the Norwegian Theatre Academy. Her current research has been based in applied permaculture studies, regenerative community/ecosystem formation and adaptation, event curation, and how these can be explored through performance, or how they can inform performance methodologies.
She recently presented two iterations of her research project Gather (g)Round: Observe & Interact (Fall 2021) and Gather (g)Round: In Relation (Spring 2022). Gather (g)Round is a multi-iterative project incorporating the twelve permaculture principles within its stages of development. It breaks each of the principles down into immersive events spread over the course of several days or several weeks. Her objective is to see how these principles can be applied to a creative process and explore how we can create regenerative artistic futures.
Her project Shasta Geaux Pop: Blended Therapy, in collaboration with Justin Hicks and David Sainté, was presented as part of The Shed’s Up Close (NYC) 2020. She was a commissioned artist for their inaugural Open Call series. Shasta Geaux Pop was presented on The High Line (NYC), at Under the Radar Festival 2018, Right About Now Festival in Amsterdam, NL, and in Orange County, CA for the Off Center Festival at the Segerstrom Arts Center. In 2017 it was also at the La Jolla Playhouse's Without Walls (WOW) Festival, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Under the Radar Festival (Jan 2017) and at The Bushwick Starr (Sept 2016).
Some of her acting credits include Girls at Yale Rep, the Broadway production of Eclipsed at The John Golden Theatre and at The Curran in San Francisco. Ayesha also performed in Failure Sandwich and Ludic Proxy, by Aya Ogawa, Home by Geoff Sobelle, this is now, and now, and now, Stairway to Stardom, and Harold I Hate You, by Cakeface (HERE, Ars Nova & Triskelion), and Platonov: Or the Disinherited by Jay Scheib (The Kitchen). In 2015 she created Come See My Double D's at JACK (NY). She has performed abroad in Amsterdam, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, and Japan. Other projects created and developed by Ayesha include Enter & Exit: Family Reunion, Enter & Exit: Playing House, Inter 1-to-1, and video project Living Room Dance Breaks.
photo by Amanda Szeglowski
Ayesha Jordan is a multidisciplinary performer and creator. She has a master's degree in Performance from the Norwegian Theatre Academy.
Her project Shasta Geaux Pop: Blended Therapy, in collaboration with Justin Hicks and David Sainté, was presented as part of The Shed’s Up Close (NYC) 2020. She was a commissioned artist for their inaugural Open Call series. Shasta Geaux Pop was presented on The High Line (NYC), at Under the Radar Festival 2018, Right About Now Festival in Amsterdam, NL, and in Orange County, CA for the Off Center Festival at the Segerstrom Arts Center. In 2017 it was also at the La Jolla Playhouse's Without Walls (WOW) Festival, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Under the Radar Festival (Jan 2017) and at The Bushwick Starr (Sept 2016).
Some of her acting credits include Girls at Yale Rep, the Broadway production of Eclipsed at The John Golden Theatre and at The Curran in San Francisco. Ayesha also performed in Failure Sandwich and Ludic Proxy, by Aya Ogawa, Home by Geoff Sobelle, this is now, and now, and now, Stairway to Stardom, and Harold I Hate You, by Cakeface (HERE, Ars Nova & Triskelion), and Platonov: Or the Disinherited by Jay Scheib (The Kitchen). In 2015 she created Come See My Double D's at JACK (NY). She has performed abroad in Amsterdam, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, and Japan. Other projects created and developed by Ayesha include Enter & Exit: Family Reunion, Enter & Exit: Playing House, Inter 1-to-1, and video project Living Room Dance Breaks.