Jasmine Ellis Projects
Jasmine Ellis Projects

Everything That Is Wrong With Me

Set to premiere in November 2024 in Munich “Everything That Is Wrong With Me” explores the intersections of identity and creativity. The richness of neurodiverse perspectives is celebrated with the concept of radical softness. Vulnerability as a power, and the delicate, dynamic use of the body, opens windows into the complexity of the human experience. Accompanied by live music from Olicia and Lukas Bamesreiter, the piece creates a multi-sensory journey that challenges social norms and redefines our understanding of normality and deviance.
60min / stage

Jasmine Ellis Projects

reality warping

As our survivalist ability to adapt grapples with AI and our own digital persona - we dance - we sing - we interface with augmented reality… the dissonance between reality, perception and social construct is challenged by playful wonder.

60min stage production

Deerman

In a surreal art-house journey, MinJung Sung explores the shifting boundaries of experience and reality. Her inner dialogue, steeped in self-imposed limitations, starts to dissolve in the presence of ineffable freedom.

7min / film

Skin Hunger

What happens when no one touches? Has necessary physical distance put gas on the fire of us becoming an individualistic and disconnected society?
60min stage production

Tanz in Oberaudorf

dance from the inner landscape of an older generation at home in the vast landscapes of Oberaudorf Bavaria. 
6min film

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Tanz in Oberaudorf_1

INSIDE THE 1972 BOXING RING

Is boxing a dance? Both boxing and dance require precision, control, and split-second decision-making. These art forms, rooted in cultural expression, share elements like rhythm, trust, and perseverance. While the brutality of ballet is often overlooked and the grace of boxing goes unnoticed, together they reveal the deep connection between physical execution and artistic expression, reshaping each other in the process.

25min / stage

Onomatopoeia 

Stuck on stage with no audience, dancers Adaya and Woosang navigate their dependence on meaningful communication and vulnerability. A single-shot short by director Jasmine Ellis.
10min film

Is Susan Lonely?

A dance piece about having an idea of a better you and the process of trying to move towards it. The project highlights the destructive nature of the concept of an ideal self to our relationship with the world. It examines whether division with one's own self can be a basis of loneliness. 
60min stage production/film

Toni is lonely

A dance-theatre piece that explores the loneliest moments of life, narrated by a man, inside a dance performance, who isn’t a dancer.
60min stage production

Empathy

Fascinated by the rapid decline of empathy, artists crash together. Admitting that the waters around us have grown, dance, theatre, and live-music weave together, asking politely: Please don’t stand in the doorway. Don’t block up the hall. Pondering if the last time we cried was in front of a youtube video, maybe going to the theatre would be nice?
60min stage 

Lucas is lonely

11 million Canadians locked in little glass boxes, each holding the key to each others box. Created for Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers This show explores social isolation and the roles we play in each other’s isolation.
60min stage

everything blue

A performance from two perspectives. The show exposes unexpected aspects of communication and the challenges that arise in these encounters. Fusing together two dissimilar approaches brings into focus our own predetermined views. The jointly-created dance performance will be experienced in two interacting parts which enrich and complete each other. 
60min stage production

Cargo

Uncertainty of reality that permeates daily life. Is what’s happening really happening? CARGO is a short, one shot dance film.
4min film

Film still from the short film

Step

Performance inspired by the New York Times article "Fake news, A global source of power over the gullible" by Paul Mozur.
60min stage performance

 

fuller work history

 

Deerman

In a surreal art-house journey, MinJung Sung explores the shifting boundaries of experience and reality. Her inner dialogue, steeped in self-imposed limitations, starts to dissolve in the presence of ineffable freedom.
7min / film

reality warping

As our survivalist ability to adapt grapples with AI and our own digital persona - we dance - we sing - we interface with augmented reality… the dissonance between reality, perception and social construct is challenged by playful wonder.
60min stage production

Skin Hunger

What happens when no one touches? Has necessary physical distance put gas on the fire of us becoming an individualistic and disconnected society?
6omin stage production

Tanz in Oberaudorf_2
Tanz in Oberaudorf_1

Tanz in Oberaudorf

dance from the inner landscape of an older generation at home in the vast landscapes of Oberaudorf Bavaria. 
6min / film

Onomatopoeia 

Stuck on stage with no audience, dancers Adaya and Woosang navigate their dependence on meaningful communication and vulnerability. A single-shot short by director Jasmine Ellis.
10min film

Is Susan Lonely?

"Is Susan lonely?" is a dance piece about having an idea of a better you and the process of trying to move towards it. The project highlights the destructive nature of the concept of an ideal self to our relationship with the world. It examines whether division with one's own self can be a basis of loneliness. 
60min film

 

Toni is lonely

A dance-theatre piece that explores the loneliest moments of life, narrated by a man, inside a dance performance, who isn’t a dancer.
60min stage production

Empathy

Fascinated by the rapid decline of empathy, artists crash together. Admitting that the waters around us have grown, dance, theatre, and live-music weave together, asking politely: Please don’t stand in the doorway. Don’t block up the hall. Pondering if the last time we cried was in front of a youtube video, maybe going to the theatre would be nice?
60min stage 

Lucas is lonely

11 million Canadians locked in little glass boxes, each holding the key to each others box. Created for Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers This show explores social isolation and the roles we play in each other’s isolation.
60min stage

everything blue

A performance from two perspectives. The show exposes unexpected aspects of communication and the challenges that arise in these encounters. Fusing together two dissimilar approaches brings into focus our own predetermined views. The jointly-created dance performance will be experienced in two interacting parts which enrich and complete each other. 
60min stage production

Film still from the short film

Cargo

Uncertainty of reality that permeates daily life. Is what’s happening really happening? CARGO is a short, one shot dance film.
4min film

Step

Performance inspired by the New York Times article "Fake news, A global source of power over the gullible" by Paul Mozur.
60min stage performance

fuller work history