All or Nothing is led by Artistic Director Jennifer Paterson. The company collaborates with other highly renowned artists for specific projects and events.
Artistic Director Jennifer Paterson is one of Scotland's leading aerial dance artists and an established performer with several aerial, dance and theatre companies throughout the UK and Ireland. A long time member of Stirling Youth Dance Company before training at London Contemporary Dance School, she has gone on to perform internationally in dance, aerial, theatre and film including award winning productions with Leah Stein (USA) and Katrina McPherson (Scotland).
Recently Jennifer toured with Catherine Wheels/National Theatre Scotland as the Dust Witch in Something Wicked This Way Comes, toured with Brighton based Gravity & Levity, was a performer/devisor in FIdget Feet's RAW directed by David Bolger and saw in the 2009 New Year as an aerialist for Wishbox, part of Edinburgh's Hogmanay Feet First Event.
Further dance and theatre credits include Arts in Motion, Boilerhouse Theatre, Cagoule Productions, Company Chordelia, Curious Seed, Expressive Feat, Paragon Ensemble, Plan B Collaborative Theatre and Tartan Chameleon.
Part of her work encompasses large scale outdoor spectacle including hanging from boats, buildings & bursting through glass ceilings for Scarabeus Theatre, and flying from cranes for Fidget Feet & Iron Oxide Performance Companies. Jennifer also performs in corporate entertainment, prestigous events such as the opening of the SageGateshead, in site specific work and at music festivals.
With several years experience of creative collaboration for other companies she founded All or Nothing as an avenue for her own artistic vision.
In the press
“spectacular stuff" *
(The Stage)
“Jennifer Paterson uses her aerial skills to hilarious effect” **
(The Herald)
“played to dizzy perfection” **
(Scotland on Sunday)
"Jennifer Paterson's cackling Dust Fairy is involved in the most impressive visual spectacle" ***
(Financial TImes)
"Jennifer Paterson brings stunning acrobatic skills to the Dust Witch" ***
(Evening News)
* reviews of Boilerhouse's 2004 production The Bridge
** reviews of Company Chordelia's 2005 production Cinderella Pilot Error
*** reviews of Catherine Wheels / NTS 2008 Production of Something Wicked This Way Comes