Biography
Jenna is a performance artist from rural Cambridgeshire. She trained with the National Youth Dance Company, performing in Akram Khan's The Rashomon Effect, before continuing her studies at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, where she performed works choreographed by Matthew Slater, Joss Baker, and Hannes Langolf.
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After graduating, Jenna joined DV8 for a period, then toured nationally as part of the Jasmin Vardimon 2 Post Graduate Programme. She has performed at a wide range of venues and festivals both in the UK and internationally, most recently appearing in Anatomical’s family hit Snowed In at Brighton Dome, The Lowry & Riley Theatre, and Cambridge University’s renowned West Road Concert Hall in collaboration with Marta Gentilucci and Bar Groisman (Sababa Co).
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As a dyspraxic dancer, Jenna is a passionate advocate for movement as a source of pleasure and a medium for embodied storytelling. Her virtuosic, expressive, and responsive style lends itself to transformative character work, which she has explored through verbatim theatre and comedy. Most recently, she has been experimenting with interdisciplinary storytelling in pursuit of an answer to the question: “What’s the best way to tell this story?”


Performing
Contemporary Dance
Acting
Singing
Physical Theatre
Clowning
Stand-up
Improvisation
Mask-work
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Stage
Screen
Radio
Festivals

Creating
Commissioned by:
Unlimited
Landmark Theatres
(Key Theatre)
GymJam
Touretteshero
Jumped Up Theatre
Lamphouse Theatre
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Awards:
Developing You Creative Practice (DYCP)
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Northern School of Contemporary Dance Graduate Creativity Award

Teaching
Contemporary Dance
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Improvisation
Exercise to Music
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