Jenna is a Boston-based maker, performer, and educator.
Jenna graduated from IAB Masters Dance programme in 2016 with an M.A. with Distinction in Choreography. Since returning to the USA she has gained a reputation as one of Boston´s prominent dance professionals, working on a wide range of projects in performance, creation and education.
Jenna´s website gives an insight into the diverse and rich career of this talented and dynamic performer.
This season she is creating with Bridge Repertory Theater, Hubbard Street Professional Program, Brandeis University Theater Department, Salem State University Theater Department, and Urbanity Dance, and is the resident dramaturg and rehearsal director for the Boston-based ‘Davis Sisters’, Alex Davis and Joy Davis. She has choreographed for Boston Moving Arts Productions, Providence College, InDance Barcelona, Theater Felina-Areal Mannheim, Salem State University, and in NYC focused on immersive performance with The Center for Innovation in the Arts at Juilliard and Dau al Set Productions. Additionally, she is a Communications Assistant for Springboard Danse Montréal and a Dance Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Boston.
She is also a performer with Alexander Davis Dance, Ali Kenner Brodsky, Betsy Miller, Heather Stewart, and the Reciprocity Collaborative. She has previously danced for Bridge Repertory Theater, Scottish Dance Theatre, The Metropolitan Opera, American Repertory Theater, Bryan Arias, Equus Projects, and BOP Montréal. Beyond the stage, she is dancing in the 2019 feature film ‘Little Women’ directed by Greta Gerwig, was in a music video for Arcade Fire’s Will Butler, featured in Pantone’s ‘make it brilliant’ ad campaign, a highlighted Harvard HBX alumnus, and guested on the Playbill podcast: The Compass.
Photos of Jenna by Tyler Mallory
