Jessica Deahr NeVille
Chicago based
Choreographer
Director
Dancer
Jessica Deahr NeVille
Chicago based
Choreographer
Director
Dancer
Discover Jessica Deahr NeVille
About
Having recently completed her 11th and final season of a critically acclaimed run as Artistic Director of Chicago Dance Crash, Jessica ventures forth as a freelance artist. Deahr's accessible, athletic, versatile fusion of art, entertainment, and storytelling has been featured through Crash's primary season of premier works and National tours, noted locally through Chicago Tribune Best in Dance accolades, and recognized nationally with Dance Magazine's Most Inventive New Work award. Her choreography has been featured in Dance For Life at the Auditorium, Chicago Summer Dance at Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park Theater Series in the Crown Fountain, Chicago Ideas Week at the Harris and Chicago Live at Navy Pier. Her commercial direction credits include Uniqlo, Cheerios, the World Wildlife Fund and the Chicago Department of Aviation while her concert dance residencies include North Carolina's Trillium Arts, Vero Beach's Riverside Theater Dance Festival, and numerous universities and peer dance companies. With a background spanning musical theater, contemporary, modern, ballet, jazz, hip hop, tap, fight choreography and aerial, Jessica continues to expand her creative reach into new avenues.
Reviews and Testimonials
"Jessica has pushed the company to greater heights while maintaining it's quircky, casual style. If we've learned anything about the petite 30-something, it's that Deahr is not to be underestimated. She's been behind the company's successful string of summer blockbusters: long form story shows that really launched Crash onto the dance scene."-Warnecke, Chicago Tribune
"Deahr's 'The Bricklayer's of Oz' is so original, so bursting with freshness on every level, so polished, it literally sparkles from start to finish. One of the many pluses that makes it so appealing is Deahr's manipulation of Hip-Hop dancing to create a choreographic lexicon that embodies the street vernacular and style of the popular da
"Deahr's 'The Bricklayer's of Oz' is so original, so bursting with freshness on every level, so polished, it literally sparkles from start to finish. One of the many pluses that makes it so appealing is Deahr's manipulation of Hip-Hop dancing to create a choreographic lexicon that embodies the street vernacular and style of the popular dance idiom while elevating the use of space, group design, rhythmic complexity, movement invention, and dramatic expression."-Shapiro, See Chicago Dance
"(Deahr's Lil Pine Nut is) a full evening work that puts a wonderfully fresh and ingenious contemporary spin on the classic...so clever and beguiling, and such a savvy mix of thoughtful storytelling and hip-hop and contemporary dance moves, that it deserves to be remounted."-Weiss, WTTW
"Boom's Day" tour: "Jessica impressed me as an
administrator, artistic director, and visionary. Under her leadership Crash grew to a truly unique company that combined Hip Hop and Contemporary dance forms. She united artists of diverse backgrounds in service of storytelling and audience enjoyment. She is one of the most unique choreographe
"Boom's Day" tour: "Jessica impressed me as an
administrator, artistic director, and visionary. Under her leadership Crash grew to a truly unique company that combined Hip Hop and Contemporary dance forms. She united artists of diverse backgrounds in service of storytelling and audience enjoyment. She is one of the most unique choreographers (and giving instructors) I have come across in a long time. She also created a brief work for students in the festival that I immediately asked her if we could purchase for our professional dancers. It is still one of our most requested encores at all of our shows."-Schnell, Ballet Vero Beach
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