On May 30th, 2008, The Twenty-three-sided Shape, a dance Jessica created for and with the grade 3/4 students of Salem Public School, had its premiere at the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival. "A great success," wrote festival Co-artistic Director Catrina von Radecki; the dance delighted audiences of all ages.
Critics called Jessica's dancing "sublime" in Peggy Baker's Dora nominated production Portal (March 2008, The Dance Current).
In January, Runge performed with Louis Laberge-Cote, Takako Segawa, Rob Piilonen, and friends for a small but riveted crowd at the Leftover Daylight Series' Tribute to Stockhausen.
In the 2007/08 school year, Jessica also taught at a number of Toronto public schools (see previous student responses) and at the PULSE Youth Conference.
In November 2007, Jessica was commissioned by Canada's pre-eminent AIDS research fundraising organization, CANFAR, to create a dance for their number one fundraising event, Bloor St. Entertains. In a most peculiar turn of events, an OAC student's misguided bomb hoax art project caused the whole event to be called off.
In October 2007, Jessica's Conversation Piece was a hit at "Toronto’s most eclectic 'reading' series", the Box salon at the Rivoli.
In the spring of 2007, Jessica performed with Kate Alton in Andrea Nann's gorgeous duet INK at Habourfront in Toronto and at the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival.
Jessica Runge was co-winner
of the 2005 K.M. Hunter Artists Award in Dance
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