Jennifer currently lives in St. Paul, MN and finished her 5th season with the Continental Ballet Company. This past October she was invited to perform in Montreal with Rosy Simas Dance Project and Debra Jinza-Thayer’s Movement Architecture. She also appears regularly with the up and coming MN jazz ensemble, Eclectic Edge Ensemble. Jennifer has also had the pleasure of doing guest artist work with companies: Spandrel, Vox Medusa Dance Company and choreographers: Joseph Bingham, Kari Jensen, Anna Resele, Dawn Strom, Sharon Varosh, Vanessa Voskuil, and Cathy Wright. Her own choreography has appeared on various stages in MN in collaboration with local musicians, ‘Ada Jane’ and Ben Siems. She also teaches at Metro Academy of Dance Education, Summit Dance Shoppe, Janet Lang Dance Studio, and Tonka DanceWorks. Previously she danced with Ray Terrill and Dancers from 2004-2008 and worked as the Assistant to the Director for Rochester Dance Company in 2004. During 2003 she spent time training and performing in Szeged, Hungary and Dublin, Ireland for a little over a year. She holds a B.A. in Arts Administration and Theater Arts-Dance from the University of WI-Stevens Point. You can spot her performing this summer at the Ritz Theater in Karis Sloss’s ‘Reeling Over Love’, Cathy Wright’s ‘Thrower of Light’ as well as Kari Jensen’s work as apart of the MN Fringe Festival.

t’s so sad that one of the last great innovators of full fledged dance visions on a grand scale with such raw emotive movement has left us as of June 30th, 2009. I picked this piece because I feel it best captures what I believe is the real intention of the story, energy and emotion behind this music and is a great example of the power of movement with music!