Jessica Daly

Jessica Daly graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2007, majoring in costume design and construction. Her costume internships included work at Circus OZ, and at the Royal Ballet and Opera, London. Since graduating she has split her time between costume design and performance. In the last year she has co-designed costumes for feature film Submerge directed by Sophie Oconnor, and designed and made costumes for a range of theatre productions including Two by The Artisan Collective, The Cat’s Paw by Hoy Polloy Theatre, and The Snow Queen produced by Y.G.L.A.M. She has just finished costume design on short film Auditioning Fanny directed by Mia-Kate Russel. Jess is the co-founder of performance art dance troupe The V Dentatas, where she directs, choreographs, designs and makes all the costumes. This dance duo produce short works revolving around themes of gender and feminism, subverting traditional forms of burlesque and dance. For the last two years they have performed in venues around Melbourne including Toff in Town and the Espy. In 2008 they toured to Sydney to perform at the Oxford Art Factory, and in 2010 will perform at Lilyworld as part of the Big Day Out festivals in Melbourne and Sydney.