Artist Bio

Jessie March is a multi-passionate, collaborative artist from Providence, Rhode Island. She has performed several times at fringePVD, most recently last year at Teatro Ecas with Pierrot <3 Moon. Jessie loves large ensemble pieces, heightened physicality, and text that she can bite into with full teeth onstage. Jessie has performed on several stages in RI including the Wilbury Theatre Group, Trinity Repertory Company, Burbage Theatre Company, and the Contemporary Theater Company. Jessie also considers teaching to be one of the many wonders of the world and is passionate about creating classrooms that inspire ensemble-building and rigorous play. 

Cecropia dance

​Jessie march

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CATEGORY:
Theater, Storytelling

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DESCRIPTION OF PIECE:

"WAIT! 
Don’t leave! 
Please! 
I know your time is precious and there’s lots to be done 
and you’ve been sitting here for hours and hours listening to plea after plea and you’re hungry 
and perhaps you’re just now remembering that errand you forgot to run, 
or that message you forgot to send, 
or that tax audit you forgot to dodge,
but for right now could I borrow a moment of your attention? 
I get it, 
I get it, 
it’s a lot of pressure to decide who gets a spot on your giant hunk of metal, 
your Noah’s Arc 2.0, 
your ticket out of here sponsored by Coca Cola and Textron, 
your escape, 
and who will be doomed to live out the rest of their 
short, 
miserable 
days 
on our planet that’s scheduled to be exploded for spare parts and valuable minerals by PepsiApple at the end of the fiscal year, 
but please, 
I just have one last presentation for you, 
one last plea for a creature that won’t take up any space at all, 
that will require very few of your resources and time 
as you all speed away from Earth in your Coke Zero spaceship. 
Will you stay? 
Just for a moment?
THANK YOU. 
I’ll talk fast. 
May I present to you, 
the humble caterpillar."

Cecropia Dance is a one-person show that follows a lepidopterologist (butterfly scientist) as she pleads for the case of the last caterpillar at the end of the world. The piece circles around the questions: What is passion? What is madness? What is the line between the two and who defines that, anyway? The core at the center of this story is a desire to create a sense of wonder and togetherness with an audience and to dance madly in community. ​