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.
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:
Dance and Dyspraxia with Aby Watson, Dr Kate Marsh and Jay Gearing at Wainsgate Chapel.
Dance and Text with Sam Plumb, Bar Groisman and William Townsend at Cambridge Junction.
Dance and Visual Arts with Caroline Wendling and Selena Chandler at Studio 459, Portugal.
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.
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?
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.