Ayesha Jordan is a multidisciplinary performer and creator based in Oslo, Norway, and a 2024-2025 Princeton Hodder Fellow. Her research is based in applied permaculture studies, regenerative community/ecosystem formation and adaptation, event curation, heritage, and how these can be explored through performance, and inform performance methodologies.
Ayesha's artistic pursuits extend beyond conventional boundaries, intentionally amplifying marginalized voices, especially from the global majority and disenfranchised communities. Her work encompasses themes such as ritual-making, multigenerational knowledge and exploration, archives, legacy, and collaborative and cooperative modes of production.
Some of her previous performance events include Shasta Geaux Pop, Come See My Double D's, Enter & Exit: Playing House, Enter & Exit: Family Reunion, Inter 1-to-1, and In the Tube. Other works include video projects Living Room Dance Breaks, Drunk & Famous, as well as a host of other songs and videos. Jordan has been seen as an actor in the Broadway production of Eclipsed by Danai Gurira and directed by Liesl Tommy, Home by Geoff Sobelle, Failure Sandwich and Ludic Proxy, by Aya Ogawa, Platonov: Or the Disinherited by Jay Scheib, and Stairway to Stardom and Harold I Hate You by Cakeface. She has also been featured in video work and photography by visual artist Carrie Mae Weems.
1. Ayesha Jordan. Photo By Alice Tomola.
2-3. Ayesha Jordan - Process
4. Shasta Geaux Pop
