Shelley Owen is a performance artist creating and touring dance and interdisciplinary work internationally.

Masters alumni of London Contemporary Dance School, she is a researcher for the International Interdisciplinary Improvisation Festival (WHAT IIIF?), mentor and Class of 2020 associate artist at The Lowry (Salford).

Shelley creates work in response to her own lived experience, with research interests including; gender and identity, womanhood, representation of body in the gallery, cognition, and contemporary performance making.

Facilitating workshops for movement and sound performance professionals and student groups. In addition, she is an advocate for the voice of independent artists and is a representative and working group member for the North West of England dance artist led for artists network (ALFA).