Jenni is an independent dancer, teacher, and award-winning choreographer/director based in Lutruwita. Driven by the personal, political and transformative forces of embodiment, Jenni’s multi-limbed practice centres care and radical play. Her choreographic work seeks to subvert relational narratives, analyse socio-politics that impact women, and playfully expose modern assumptions of stigmatised subjects. Heavily influenced by aesthetic and cinematic tropes, Jenni aims to balance experimentation, risk and entertainment value within her work.

As a dancer, she has collaborated and performed extensively throughout metropolitan, regional and remote Australia as well as Europe, the UK, NZ, the Americas, Japan and Singapore with artists and companies including Dancenorth, Tasdance, Legs On The Wall, GUTS Dance, SA Opera/Leigh Warren and Ashleigh Musk.

She has presented her choreographic work both as an independent artist and through commissions Australia-wide at festivals and institutions including; Mona Foma, Ten Days On The Island, Ohm Festival Brisbane Powerhouse, Dancehouse, Carriage Works, Desert Festival, ADT:Raw, Sound + Fury, Sydney Dance Company, WAAPA, Stompin, Australasian Dance Collective and Tasdance. In 2022, Jenni won the people’s choice award for her Keir Choreographic work and was honoured to receive a Chloe Munro Fellowship. Recently, she participated in an Asia Link Singapore Arts Now exchange, performed in the UK and EU in THAW (Legs On The Wall) and premiered her newest independent work ‘Wet Hard Long’ at Dancehouse in Naarm/Melbourne which has received a Green Room nomination for Outstanding Visual Design.

IMAGE: Melanie Kate Creative