Cassie Augusta Jørgensen (b. 1991, Copenhagen) works as a dancer, visual artist and choreographer. She has perfected her showgirl-ship through working with theatre, art and dance makers like Ligia Lewis, Leila Hekmat and Rory Pilgrim. Jørgensen has a trained background in classical and modern dance and lived and studied at the Alvin Ailey School of Dance in New York for many years. She works from the imagination of her inside eye, deep, sweaty and long improv sessions. Her own work touches on Christian morals, porn, people that inspire her. She work on the rebuke of film, dance and theater history. She loves the old magazines from the 70’s and 80’s from where a duality of worlds collide, like transsexual fetish and the ability and access to hormone replacement therapy, before it was trans girls were recognised by the NHS, world wide. Cassie draws choreographic information from other dancers like Valeska Gert, Asta Nielsen, Lindsey Kemp and other mime legends, females and of course being a trans girl drawn to tragedy in all its vibrancy. Jørgensen’s desire and goal is to make holes and ambiguous space in film and dance history through expanding the performative field, into pictures, installation, costume, sound and to meditate on new narratives and fiction of live performance and shapes. Cassie Augusta Jørgensen lives and works in Berlin.
Biography of the artist Cassie Augusta Jørgensen
