About

Jennifer Jackson Company creates exhilarating and empowering experiences for audiences and participants which invites them to dream into new kinships and cosmologies. The company is led by Jennifer Jackson, an award winning Latinx British-Bolivian Theatremaker, Movement Director, Choreographer, writer and Performer. Her work exists at the meeting point of performance and the excitement of a sports spectacle.

Her practice is interdisciplinary, intersectional, and inclusive. She is particularly interested in the sports arena as a space that deals in the fatigue and resurrection of bodies, and the porous relationship between audience and athlete.

Her performances encompass theatre, contemporary dance, live art, Bolivian folk dance, martial arts, and co-creation. Drawing from her mixed-heritage, Jennifer tells stories that speak to her diasporic heritage, post-colonial legacies; exploring power & gender biases. Often centring on the experiences of people who experience misogyny, her work examines the ways that women and girls use their bodies, the complexity of living between cultures, and proposes that the use of space is intimately tied up with power.

Her acclaimed works ENDURANCE, and WRESTLELADSWRESTLE play with the cycle of destruction and rehabilitation inherent in sports spectacles, borrowing tropes and aesthetics from this world to agitate and interrogate ideas around power and society. 

Using her own embodied experiences as a sportsperson and performer, her work plays with the way language frames and shapes our experiences and histories. Using commentary and narration to erode and shape how we relate to living, breathing bodies on stage.

She is interested in the ways power can be subverted within the theatre machine, and is interested in the role of embedded creative access in this conversation. All her works are currently creatively captioned.

Her first full production, ENDURANCE, was commissioned by HOME Manchester in 2021, and toured to Battersea Arts Centre and Sheffield Theatres. In 2022 it was one of 22 artworks shortlisted from 347 global entries for the prestigious Stückemarkt (Theatertreffen), receiving high praise from the selection panel.

She has been supported by Theaterhaus Mitte (Berlin); Barbican Open Lab (WRESTLELADSWRESTLE); Jerwood New Work Award (2023); Jerwood Live Work Fund (2020/2021); Leverhulme Arts Scholarship (2019); Blue Print (Without Walls 2023); and an MGC Futures Award (2022); The Lowry (Developed With); The egg (Incubator); The Bank (Sheffield Theatres), and Oxford Playhouse (Evolve). She was selected for the ‘Scene Change Residency’ in 2023 by Battersea Arts Centre, HET Theater Festival, and Nederlands Theater Festival. In 2024, she presented at Caravan Assembly 2024, and was the inaugural artist to be awarded the ARTIST TAKEOVER at FACTORY INTERNATIONAL.

Recent commissions include the prestigious Choreodrome 2025 (The Place, London), with THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE GRRRLS- a dance-theatre performance for a cast of 10 year old girls (also supported by The egg, Bath Theatre Royal); and the Britten Pears Residency for FOLK LIKE US (with the composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman).