Tall
A timeline:
Jessica travels to Ghana, where she learns stilt dancing with Anchors Masquerade Society in Cape Coast. She is initiated as a stilt performer with a protection ritual, enabling her to channel powerful forces in precarious situations...
She begins performing as Tall Hilda, the ten foot tall faux-German powerhouse, with Anonymous Ensemble's episodic rock theater show The Best, which performs all over NYC, as well as Berlin and Australia.
She performs on stilts in a range of nightclubs, music videos, short films.
She performs a marriage in the air on stilts in Mabou Mines Red Beads, at MassMoca and the Skirball Center, NYC
She travels to Mexico with her self-made red wooden stilts, happens to find the stilters of Zachilla Mexico, and joins them for their yearly festival of San Sebastian, where the all male group dress half as men and half as women. Her stilts are exactly the same height as theirs.
She performs on stilts and as an actor in Mabou Mines' Dollhouse, which tours to Israel, Hong Kong, Australia, Edinburgh, Madrid, Singapore, Italy, Greece, Korea, Columbia, the U.S. and Moscow
While on a jaunt to a Botanical Garden in mainland China, she comes across a stilt performance. The stilters let her join them for a little while, and before long there is a local television crew making news of it.
Photo: Kenny Mathieson
Along with Anonymous Ensemble she creates Wanderlust, a one-woman stilted tour-de-force, which performs at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. It is nominated for a Total Theatre award in Experiment and Innovation.
Photo: Kenny Mathieson
The performance of Wanderlust in the Edinburgh Fringe leads to a U.K. tour which also includes the Hilda and Gretel Cabaret, at Latitude Festival, Jackson's Lane, Madame JoJo's, Stratford Circus.
She performs on stilts in a collaboration with the National Opera of Greece, in Anonymous Ensemble's Turing Opera. Playing MIRA, a superhuman computer chatbot who orchestrates an opera.
Ellipsa MG, the tall folk singer-songwriter is revealed in a dream
Photo: Julieta Cervantes
She collaborates with long time evil sister Aki Sasamoto in her Sunny in the Furnace at the Kitchen, NYC.
She performs Braid, an autobiographical fantasy of the ten foot tall singer-writer Ellipsa, at NC Stage.
Ellipsa travels to Berlin
She passes through the olive groves of Umbria, Italy
She traverses the Boroughs of NYC
She visits the cherry blossoms in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
She creates Songs from a Tall Room, at FiveMyles
She creates The Owl and the Flowers, at Mabou Mines
NYC Venues:
St Ann's Warehouse, Skirball Center, LaMama's, P.S.122, Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Museum of the City of New York,Webster Hall, The Pyramid Club, The Belt, The Chocolate Factory, The Ohio Theater, Chashama, The Makor, Marqee, Arena, The Box, The Park, Element, The Annex, Carnival,The Delancey, Parkside Lounge, Galapagos, Sin-E, Parkside Lounge, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
The Powerhouse (Brisbane, Austalia), Festival D'Otono (Madrid), La Guellaguetza (Zaachila, Mexico) Anchor's Masquerade Society (Cape Coast, Ghana), Festival Iberoamericano (Bogota, Columbia), Epidaurus Festival (Athens, Greece), Auditorium (Rome, Italy), LG Arts Center (Singapore), Neuropolis Festival (Berlin), Norwegian Fashion Awards (Oslo, Norway), Edinburgh International Theater Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) Latitude Festival, (UK), Jackson's Lane Theater (London, UK) Madame JoJo's (London, UK), Maly Theater (Moskow) Olympia Theater, National Opera of Greece (Athens),
