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Jess Mabel Jones

Bio

Jess Mabel Jones is a puppetteer, performer, and producer. Jones strives to make her work inclusive, intersectional, intergenerational, and accessible. Her work has been shown at various venues including QEH, Barbican, TATE, WOW, British Council Showcase, The Albany, Battersea Arts Centre, Soho Theatre, Machynlleth Comedy Festival, Sydney Opera House, Orpheum Graz, Adelaide Festival, Abrons Arts Centre NY, Skirball Centre LA, Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Huangpu Theatre Shanghai. Jones identifies as neurodivergent. She is a Total Theatre Awards winner and assessor. In addition to her solo work, Jones mentors and collaborates with other neurodivergent artists.

(All information from Jess Mabel Jones' website)

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Video Description

This video is mostly dark. It features a hanging white sheet that has residual wrinkles from being folded. The sheet is illuminated with a blue light. Rock music plays in the background. The blue light is replaced with a stronger white late as the shadow of a woman's legs and high heels show through the sheet. The woman seems to walk on a treadmill. The woman's legs are replaced by the shadow of a woman's full body illuminated with the blue light. The image is replaced with shadows of a city scape. The city scape is replaced with a kitchen shape and the shadow of a woman jumps into the frame and begins dancing. This woman is replaced by a woman in a wide-brimmed hat who ducks. Her shadow is replaced again by the dancing shadow. A new figure replaces this figure, and with lighting tricks the figure appears to be split in half. At the end of the video, the lights come on, revealing a woman dancing in front of the sheet while three puppetteers use handheld constructions to cast shadows onto the sheet. 

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