JESSICA KONDRATH
JESSICA KONDRATH, holds degrees in dance from UC Santa Barbara (BFA) and California State University, Long Beach (MFA). She has shown work throughout Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and New York City. Jessica has had works commissioned by CSU Long Beach, Santa Monica College, CSU Fullerton, and Momenta Performing Arts Company for their 35th anniversary concert; and has been a guest instructor at Loyola Marymount University, Colorado State University-Fort Collins, University of Wyoming-Laramie, CSU Fullerton, and the University of Colorado-Boulder; and served on the faculty in the Dance Departments of El Camino College, Rio Hondo College, Santa Monica College, and California State University-Channel Islands. As a dancer, Jessica has most recently performed the works of Carol McDowell, Liz Hoefner Adamis/Immediate Action Dance, and Sarita Smith-Childs; and is part of an ongoing collaboration with visual artists Yumi Janairo Roth as part of her installation Spin (After Sol LeWitt) presented by Grand Central Arts, and Diana Baumbach showing their collaborative works nationally and internationally. She was a recipient of the Professional Artist Fellowship Grant from the Arts Council of Long Beach for her work as the Artistic Director of GRAYSCALE. Jessica is also a lighting designer for dance, a Pilates Instructor certified at the Kane School of Core Integration under the direction of Kelly Kane, and is on faculty at Loyola University Chicago, the Academy of Movement and Music, and serves as the Dance Program Director at College of DuPage. Her most recent projects included a residency and premier of an evening length work Invisible Landscapes at The Visionary in Mt. Vision, NY, a dance film project Hemlighet in Vassa, Finland with Jukka Rajala, Carina Ahlskog, and Diana Baumbach, and the performance of Terrang at Columbia College Chicago in collaboration with Carina Ahlskog and Diana Baumbach.