Aerial Dance — Jessica Innes - Puppetry and Performance

Aerial Dance.

Jessica is a freelance aerial teacher with All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre. Her main discipline is Trapeze and she is training in Rope.

She began training in Aerial Dance with All or Nothing in early 2019. Since then she has worked with the company backstage in shows, assisting rigging checks, and becoming a tutor in early 2023.

Jessica has performed as a fairy in a tree (on trapeze!) with Rowanbank Environmental Arts, has undertaken a residency with Capital Theatres to discover storytelling and character development featuring puppetry and aerial dance, and recently performed Dance Trapeze at the All or Nothing Aerial Cabaret at Assembly Roxy.

Performance

Music: Walk Above The City - The Paper Kites

I created this piece based on a person’s relationship with their emotions. How we can feel supported, overwhelmed, restricted, or in control of them. The character’s costume is inspired by and reflects the colours of the trapeze, symbolising that the trapeze is part of them. I picked the song Walk Above The City particularly because of the lyric “we’re breathing more than we ever have before”, which resonated so much with me. It was important for me to created a realistic yet abstract piece. Jennifer Paterson (AD All or Nothing) created a stunning light design with notes of blues, greys and shadows.