Jenna Unwin
Current
Past
The Great Peterborough Cringe Exchange (2025)
Eclectic, funny, unapologetically weird.
A 6-month research project aimed at reducing isolation in Peterborough by connecting people through sharing cringeworthy memories and laughing together. Workshops, conversations, events and a performance brought together people from Peterborough and surrounding areas to laugh at our shared and surprisingly common cringiness. ​
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Supported by Arts Council England, Lamphouse Theatre, Gateway Arts, Landmark Theatres, Metal Culture & Cambridge Junction.
Developing a Methodology
Developing Your Creative Practice grant - Arts Council England
Jenna undertook four residencies exploring a combination of her strongest art form, dance, and one other creative interest:
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Dance and Dyspraxia with Aby Watson, Dr Kate Marsh and Jay Gearing at Wainsgate Chapel.
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Dance and Text with Sam Plumb, Bar Groisman and William Townsend at Cambridge Junction.
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Dance and Visual Arts with Caroline Wendling and Selena Chandler at Studio 459, Portugal.
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Dance and Technology with Soul Roberts at Dance East. With LED design provided by SLR Games and Pulsar.
The Noted Liar (2022)
A collection of stories from people living in rural Fenland, physically retold by folkloric characters, including a half-cow half-woman, a dancing light and a cheeky little wood-nymph.​
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Created during a Metal New Artist Residency at Metal Peterborough and continued during a Studio 459 residency in Tomar, Portugal.
HERE:NOW (2023)
When something long slumbering within you stirs to life, what happens when it opens its eyes and finds that you are now someone else entirely?
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HERE:NOW is a 12-minute live and recorded dance piece with themes of identity, loss, isolation and joy. Accompanying the live dancer is a collection of audio clips from interviews with female-identifying people who have a strong connection to nature, played alongside a dreamy forest projection.
The full film, made in collaboration with Red7Productions is available to watch for free.