Jennifer is a movement artist who has been dancing and creating performances for three decades. She is fascinated with people, the body, objects and space as text. She enjoys the “found” - accidental, unintentional or the naturally present, whether that is sound, movement, landscape, or how the body collaborates with these things and inhabits these spaces.
Her work has evolved in many directions over the years. Her earliest work explored text, gesture and pattern as expressed in human movement, reflecting her experimentation with early digital video. Accidentally spilling a bean soup mix into a pile of soil in her studio led her to the conclusion that plants create their own dances. Her Masters thesis project blended gardening and performance. In the 1990s she created theatrical, movement-based experiments that challenged assumptions about performance for theaters, galleries and outdoor spaces, performing nationally and internationally. Right Brain Performancelab was a two-decade long hybrid performance project that brought together musicians, theater artists, costume designers, dance artists and lighting designers to create collaborative and devised events. She became fascinated with remote performance in the mid-2010s, as well as site specific works that ask the question whether a dance or a moment of performance needs to be fully seen.
In 2018 she began a new phase of work that centered on the body, at where movement originates, micro movements and where the body isn’t. Her most recent work explored the elusive, erased female Jewish body and the aging body in motion.
She is currently developing a movement research and performance practice in Portland, OR where she teaches and lives with her family.