J Dellecave is a Brooklyn and Providence-based interdisciplinary performance-maker, scholar, and educator concerned with how bodily experience intersects with external fields of social, cultural, and political knowledge. Their recent body of evening length and endurance format performance straddles the genres of dance, performance art, and movement-based theater. Recent projects include Connect Four, Land/escapes and collaborations with the Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective. J holds a PhD in Critical Dance Studies from the University of California, Riverside; MA in Performance Studies from New York University; and BFA in Dance from Temple University. They work as an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University.
J’s writing has appeared in Performance Matters, Radical Teacher, Dance Chronicle, Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance, Women and Performance Journal, and itch Dance Journal. J has received grants and funding from Brown Arts Initiative, the Department of Education Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, San Diego State University, University of California Riverside, Mellon Summer Studies, Art Works in Different Places, Dance Advance, and the Leeway Foundation, and production grants and subsidies from HERE Arts Space (NYC), Links Hall (Chicago), Patrick’s Cabaret (Minneapolis) and Noh Space (San Francisco).
Prior performances of note include Angry Women REvisited—a fifteen-person original ensemble performance—played to sold outs houses at HERE Arts Center in April 2014. Micro-Mini Maxi Mystery Theater: En Total premiered at Dixon Place for three nights in October 2012. Nocturnal Beaver, a five-day endurance installation in collaboration with filmmaker Sarolta Jane Vay premiered at MIX: New York City Queer Experimental Film Festival in November 2012. In 2011, J’s evening-length solo show, BLOWHOLE—an epistolary collaboration with writer July Oskar Cole—toured the west stopping in Riverside, Los Angeles, Tucson, and San Francisco. J’s other professional production credits include work with New York City based performers KJ Holmes, Jen Abrams, Julie Mayo, Jenny Romaine (Great Small Works Visual Theater Company) and Philadelphia theater provocateur Greg Giovanni (Big Mess Theater and Big Mess Cabaret). In 2012, J played the lead role, Water Nymph, in the play The Gold Fish: Straight Flushes for the Manifestly Destined—a slapstick musical about salmon migration and water rights. The Gold Fish play was performed in Sacramento, California at the Crocker Museum, and the Gold Fish Casino (film version) premiered at the 2017 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. From 1999-2003 J served as curator, produced, and toured their own and other peoples work nationally and in Canada, most extensively (but not exclusively) as part of the P Power Performance Project: Supergirl Power Activate – a multi-year, multi-genre touring event that interrogated representations of women and power and literally created a cohort of superheriones across the country.
Contact J @ j dot dellecave dot phd at gmail dot com
