Jessi Knight is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer from Pittsboro, NC. Her dance journey began as a happy accident and has since developed into a life-long passion. After graduating from Duke University with a self-designed dance degree with an emphasis in music and education, Jessi embarked on a teaching and choreographing career that has afforded her the opportunity to teach, choreograph, and perform both locally and nationally. She spent four years in Denver, CO, as a member of the internationally acclaimed Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble and currently resides in North Carolina where, in addition to choreographing on a project-by-project basis for her company Knightworks Dance Theater, she is a close collaborator with The Bipeds and mama to two incredibly brilliant spirits.