Jen Mesch is a Canadian dance artist and filmmaker. She grew up in a former lumber town – a village of 400 people in northwest lower Michigan among a family of natural explorers.  Influenced by the dramatic landscapes around Lake Michigan, her work often embodies solitude and remoteness.

“If it is the job of the artist to reflect back our society to us, Jen Mesch takes it one step further – or rather sideways – and reflects us back at ourselves in our most humorous, contradictory and vulnerable states. Her fascination with the human animal shines through in all that she does, and makes us aware of ourselves in ways that make us seem both alien and more human all at the same time. She is a rare talent.” 

– Julianna Barabas