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Jessi Faircloth is a dance artist, writer, social worker, and visual creator from Chattanooga, TN. Her practice explores the somatic representation of the psychosomatic body, centering postmodernism, improvisation, and the intersections of movement with spoken word. Classically trained in Ballet and Modern dance, Jessi has shifted her focus toward experimental practices that question form, intimacy, and the shared connections between bodies in space, often through the lens of queer embodiment.

She is a graduate of the Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts, where she performed with Project Motion, and later studied dance at Bennington College in Vermont, deepening her study of postmodernism and choreography. Her work has been presented with The Pop Up Project, Barking Legs Theater, Hunter Museum of American Art, Stove Works Gallery, and in international collaboration through Sister Cities.

Recent projects include blank / slate (2025), a co-directed dance production featuring her works A Ritual in Three Eggs and An Unseen Loop; Until the Sun Rises (2023), an immersive show with The Pop Up Project where she contributed both choreography and spoken word; and Queering Touch (2020), a documentary exploring intimacy and queer life in the South, presented at Stove Works. Her film collaborations, Rest Easy (2022) and The Light We Share (2022), merge dance and text to investigate experiences of illness and mental health.

Beyond dance, Jessi works in collage and textile art, integrating sewing and assemblage as extensions of her movement practice. Across disciplines, her work embodies care, resilience, and the complexity of inhabiting queer and neurodivergent identities.