Ayesha Jordan is a multidisciplinary performer and creator currently based in Oslo, Norway. Her current research has been based in applied permaculture studies, regenerative community/ecosystem formation and adaptation, event curation, and how these can be explored through performance, or how they can inform performance methodologies.
She has presented two iterations of her research project Gather (g)Round, Observe & Interact (Fall 2021) and In Relation (Spring 2022). Her work Shasta Geaux Pop: Blended Therapy, in collaboration with Justin Hicks and David Sainté, was presented as part of The Shed’s Up Close (NYC). She was a commissioned artist for their inaugural Open Call series. Shasta Geaux Pop was presented on The High Line (NYC) with collaborator Charlotte Brathwaite, as well as Under the Radar Festival, Right About Now Festival in Amsterdam, NL, and in Off Center Festival at the Segerstrom Arts Center, La Jolla Playhouse's Without Walls (WOW) Festival, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, and The Bushwick Starr. Other projects created and developed by Ayesha include Enter & Exit: Family Reunion, Enter & Exit: Playing House, Inter 1-to-1, and video project Living Room Dance Breaks.
Some of her acting credits include the Broadway production of Eclipsed at The John Golden Theatre and returned to her role of "The Girl" at The Curran in San Francisco, March 2017. Jordan also performed in both Failure Sandwich and Ludic Proxy, by Aya Ogawa, Home by Geoff Sobelle, This is now & now & now, Stairway to Stardom and Harold I Hate You, by cakeface (HERE, Ars Nova & Triskelion), and Platonov: Or the Disinherited, World of Wires, and Bellona: Destroyer of Cities by Jay Scheib (The Kitchen, Paris, Poland). In 2015 she created Come See My Double D's at JACK (NY). She has performed abroad in Amsterdam, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Taiwan, Australia, Scotland, and Japan.