Jessica Chiye Warshal is a dancer, teacher and choreographer from California, USA. She trained in Contemporary, West African dance, and Street Dance at the University of California Los Angeles and received her BA in Dance with double minors in Visual and Performing Arts Education and Music Industry. Jessica created works in Los Angeles for The Fowler Museum, The Glory Kaufman Theater, and at the Broad Art Center and was awarded the Best Act title at UCLA Spring Sing 2022 for Outspoken, her interdisciplinary dance, spoken word, and live music collective. Warshal's movement consists of highly energized, virtuosic, and complex movement with a focus on isolation as a means of flow through her practice. Her performances participate in activism-based worldmaking by illustrating a sensitivity to the intricate human experience and connecting to the playfulness of her imagination.

Jessica is a graduate of the MA Dance: Performance programme at LCDS, where she was a member of the inaugural Cohort 01. During the programme she worked with project leaders such as Theo Clinkard, Jenna Jalonen, Hannes Langolf, Paleta, Benjamin Jonsson, AE Company (Aoi Nakamura & Esteban Lecoq), Edivaldo Ernesto, Horacio Macuacua, Jozef Frucek and Alexandra Reynolds under the course leadership of Tom English, Tina Afiyan Breiova and Dr Andrew Sanger and working closely with individual mentor Chihiro Kawasaki.

Working with Edivaldo Ernesto's Depth Movement practice was an inspiring moment in my own dance practice through expanding our creativity in improvisation by exploring the physical range, textures, and rhythms of my movement, as well as illustrating the ways improvisation can be performance. This stayed with me through my independent practice, as I now explore what the throughlines are of my improvisation and how I can improvise in ways which feel more focused in its performative potential as well as meaningful and interesting to me as an artist.