Movement Director
Choreographer
Director
Jess is a UK based Movement Director, Choreographer and Director originally from South Wales.
Most recently, Jess has been working on 'Our Town' the first show of the new Welsh National Theatre and on 'Hamlet, Hail to the Thief' - a frenetic adaption of Shakespeare's Hamlet, haunted by Radiohead's Hail to the Thief.
Jess Williams's Movement Direction which helps to evoke the bustle of the community is vibrant and seamlessly fluid
Jess Williams's Balletic choreography enchants- The Times - Our Town
Movement Director Jess Williams turns the town itself into a living, breathing presence.Performers literally pull up the floorboards and fluidly rearrange them to form doors, tables and the soping roofs of churches. At other times, the actors themselves become props, picked up and positioned about the space, spun in balletic lfts or danced around in slow motion.- The Stage - Our Town
Jess Williams's work as Movement Director is crucial to the sense of civic interdependence the 18 strong cast weave across the stage - fluidly but not over balletically - as if they were making a cats cradle with their activity - The Observer -Our Town
This is a true ensemble where every physical body on stage contibutes to the texture of the whole - the standard - Our Town