Ayesha Jordan

CV

Education
Master of Fine Arts in Performance- Norwegian Theatre Academy
Permaculture Design Certificate- Norwegian Permaculture Association- Instructor- Jan Bang
Professional Diploma in Dance Studies- Laban, London
Bachelor of Arts/Theater Arts- Clark Atlanta University

Selected Performance Work
2025 From Geaux to Greaux (work-in-progress sharing), Losæter Urban Farm, Oslo, Norway
2025 Process Exhibition – Contributor/Performance-based installation, Fotogalleriet (NO)
2024 Gather (g)Round: In Flow Tekstlab at Gamle Munch, Oslo, Norway
2024 Gather (g)Round: Soft Landings, Southnord x Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Gather (g)Round: In Relation, Talberg Nedre, Skjeberg, Norway
2022 Gather (g)Round: Scrapbook Presentation Black Box Teater, Norway
2021 Gather (g)Round: Observe & Interact, Tredalen, Hvaler, Norway
2021 Afrofemononomy//Work The Roots, (group performance exhibition) Performance
Space NY
2020 Shasta Geaux Pop: Blended Therapy, The Shed (Open Call) NYC
2018 High Mud Comedy Festival, Mass MOCA, Massachusetts
2016-18 Shasta Geaux Pop, Lead artist NYC, Cincinatti, OH, San Diego & Orange County, CA,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Food for Thought: Social Studies, Co-Creator/Performer Danspace, NY
2015 Come See My Double D’s, Creator/Performer JACK, NY
2013 Enter & Exit: Family Reunion, Creator/Performer JACK, NY
2012 Enter & Exit: Playing House, Creator/Performer JACK, NY
2006 In the Tube, Creator/Performer Atlanta, GA
2005 Inter 1-to-1, Creator/Performer Atlanta, GA

Film
2017 Shasta Geaux Pop 4 President Performer/Writer
2015 Prodigenous Liberation Performer/Editor
2015 Living Room Dance Breaks A-Z Performer/Editor
2015 Drunk & Famous Performer/Writer
2011 Taste Test: Shasta Geaux Pop Performer/Writer/Editor
2013 15 Knocks Choreography/Performer/Editor

Selected Theater/Dance Productions
2025 Kings…Come Home Performer Kip Republic (Amsterdam),
National Black Theater (NY)
2024 Kalokagathia Dancer Choreo. Jonas Øren, Norway
2022 Spaces Between Dancer Dansens Hus Oslo, Norway
2022 Euphoria C Julians Rosefeldt, Park Avenue
Armory NYC, Ruhrtriennale
2020 this is now, and now, and now Dancer cakeface, JACK NY
2018- 2022 Home Performer Geoff Sobelle, International
Tour
2019 Girls Girl Dir. Lileana Blain Cruz, Yale
Repertory Theater
2018 Failure Sandwich Aya 4 Dir. Aya Ogawa, Brooklyn Arts
Exchange
2017 Stairway to Stardom Ayesha Cakeface HERE ARTS
2016-2017 Eclipsed The Girl Dir. Liesl Tommy, Broadway &
Off-Broadway (NYC,SF)
2015 The Reenactors Actress 3 Dir. Tony Torn, Abrons Art
Center
2015 Ludic Proxy Masha/Trepple Dir. Aya Ogawa, The Play
Company
2013-2014 Platonov: or The Disinherited Sasha Dir. Jay Scheib, La Jolla
Playhouse/The Kitchen
2012 Zero Cost House Past Okada/Rabbit Wife Dir. Dan Rothenberg, TPAM
Yokohama, Japan
2012 World of Wires Ivana/Hannah/Robber Dir. Jay Scheib, NYC/Poland/
France
2011 Bellona: Destroyer of Cities Risa/Lanya/Dragonlady Dir. Jay Scheib, Paris/ICA
Boston
2010 The Wife Girly Dir. May Adrales, Access
Theatre (NY)
2009 Angela’s Mixtape Cess/Various Roles Dir. Liesl Tommy, Ohio
Theater (NYC)
Awards/Grants/Residencies/Fellowships
2025 Praksis Oslo Residency R30 – Climate/Coloniality
2024 Princeton Hodder Fellowship (2024-2025)
2024 Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute Residency – University of Virginia (2024-26)
2023 Kulturrådet – The State’s Artist Grant – One Year
2023 Kulturrådet – Preliminary Project Funding Grant- Shasta Geaux Pop presents Shasta Greaux Crops
2022 All My Relations: Eco-Pedagogy, Self-Cultivation and Transformative Performance Practices,
Gylleboverket, Sweden
2022 Fresh Ground Pepper BRB Eco-Retreat- Little Pond Pennsylvania
2022 Østfold International Theatre-Project Space Residency
2021 MIT Performing Series Residency
2019 MIT Performing Series Residency
2018 Praksis Residency Oslo R12 – Take Hold the Double Bridge
2018 Banff Choreography Across Disciplines Residency Canada
2018 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2018 Arts & Climate Change Incubator NYC
2006 Taller Portobelo Norte Residency Portobelo, Panama
2000 Woody Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical- St. Louis Black Repertory Company

Public Programming
2024 “The Deep West Assembly” by Cauleen Smith at Astrup Fearnley Museum (June-September)

Conferences/Panels/Lectures
2025 Frictioned Futures Seminar – Panel Moderator – Dansenshus
2024 Sea Matters International Encounter – Experimental Performance Nucleus of the Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro and Norwegian Theatre Academy
2023 Tekstlab: Live Art på Gamle Munch
2023 CODA Oslo International Dance Festival: A joint effort: Building Platforms for equity, discourse, and artistic activity
2023 International Platform for Performer Training (IPPT) Chiusi, Italy
2022 Intergenerational Encounter- Performance Dramaturgies- Norwegian Theatre Academy
2022 Frøkostsamtale med Maritea Dæhlin- Black Box Teater
2022 Conversations with Place – Lanterna Hidden Connections- Visible Ecologies Festival

Workshops
2025 DIG IN: FALLing into Focus- Bjørvika
2025 DIG IN: Very Seedy Bizness – Fotogalleriet
2025 DIG IN: Let’s Get Fungi with Winter and Mycelium! – Praksis Oslo
2023 Tekstlab: Finding Futures
2023 Sea Matters Fall Workshop & Laboratory led by Ayesha Jordan & Luanda Carneiro Jacoel
2023 Performance & Permaculture: Nordic Permaculture Festival
2023 Permaculture & Seed Sowing hosted by Gather (g)Round & Assata Activist Library at Losæter
2023 New Rituals and Practices for Youth – Ongoing workshop series with 5 youth from
Fredrikstad, Norway exploring land, new ritual, and creativity
2021 Collective Situations for Creative Experiences- A process for sharing knowledge between NTA MAs and BAs

Publications
Jordan, Ayesha (2024) Geaux and Gather. Howlround Theatre Commons: Theatre in the Age of Climate
Change
Jordan, Ayesha. (2024) Finding our footing. Afro-Nordic Anthology (forthcoming publication)
Jordan, Ayesha. (2022) Gather (g)Round: Creating communal ecosystems through performance and
permaculture. Peripeti, 19 (37), 158-167.