Jay Beardsley (dancer)

Based in Brooklyn, New York, jay beardsley (they/them) is a freelance artist, dancer, arts administrator, and educator. Jay's performance credits include Ballez, The Merce Cunningham Trust, Douglas Dunn + Dancers, Liz Gerring Dance Company, Tabula Rasa Dance Theatre, Anna Maria Häkkinen via PERFORMA, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, and their own performance project Katerina & jay. They have additionally collaborated with Sidra Bell Dance New York and MICHIYAYA Dance. jay’s own work has been produced by Movement Research (NYC), Performance Mix Festival (NYC), Proteomedia (NYC), Dance Place (Washington, D.C.), and Dogtown Dance Theatre (Richmond, VA). They are a WADE PRIDE 2025 artist-in-residence which will result in the premiere of a new evening length work in 2026 with two in-progress excerpt showings in 2025. jay is a 2020 graduate of the Dance and Choreography department at Virginia Commonwealth University and has studied with Trisha Brown Dance Company, The Merce Cunningham Trust, Jennifer Nugent, Jenna Riegel, artists of Bill T. Jones Company, Sidra Bell, Jasmine Hearn, Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal, and artists of the American Dance Festival, among others. jaybeardsley.com.

Photo by Yael Malka.