DANCER, CHOREOGRAPHER, DIRECTOR

Born and raised in Naarm/Melbourne and now based in Kanamaluka/Launceston, Lutruwita/Tasmania, Jenni is an independent dancer, teacher, and award-winning choreographer/director working nationally and internationally. Her practice spans over 15 years of performance, collaboration, and choreographic development across Australia, Europe, the UK, Aotearoa New Zealand, the Americas, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore.

Driven by the personal, political, and transformational forces of the body, Jenni constructs highly visual choreographic worlds that intersect the dancing body with apparatus, aesthetics, endurance, and sensation. Influenced by cinematic language, cultural tropes, horror, comedy, and popular culture, her work interrogates patriarchal systems, celebrates women, and challenges sexual stigma. Fascinated by the dynamics of sex and power, she uses tension and release to create performances that disturb and delight audiences in equal measure.

Jenni graduated from WAAPA in 2010, receiving the Hawaiian Award for Most Outstanding Graduate, and undertook a six-month international exchange at Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan.

She was a formative ensemble member with Dancenorth from 2015–2020 under the direction of Kyle Page and Amber Haines, performing extensively throughout remote, regional, and metropolitan Australia as well as internationally. During this time, she performed in works including the multi-award-winning Attractor by Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek, alongside original creations by Amber Haines, Kyle Page, Ross McCormack, Stephanie Lake, Lee Serle, Alisdair Macindoe, and Jo Lloyd.

As an independent artist, Jenni has collaborated with artists and companies including Tasdance/A197, Leigh Warren & Dancers, Sue Peacock, Isabella Stone, Legs On The Wall (THAW in London, Antwerp and NZ), GUTS Dance, ROOKE Circus, Pat Toh Ling/Dance Nucleus, Ashleigh Musk, Loren Kronemyer and Bridie Hooper. She was a founding member of The Dance Makers Collective (NSW) and continues to create independent work as well as on commission from renowned Australian companies, festivals and galleries.

Notable choreographic works include Wet Hard, recipient of the Keir Choreographic Award People’s Choice Award; S U C K E R for Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed; Phantom Femme Fatale; Body Body Commodity; Truth Beauty Suffering for Australasian Dance Collective; LIP for Lucy Guerin Inc’s PIECES; and Wilds with ROOKE Circus for Ten Days on the Island, which she received the Tasmanian Theatre Judges’ Special Award for choreography and creative leadership.

Her acclaimed work Wet Hard Long premiered at Dancehouse before seasons at The Australian Ballet’s DanceX at the Arts Centre Melbourne and Sydney Dance Company’s INDance program, receiving a Green Room Award nomination for Best Visual Design and a nomination for the Rose International Dance Prize at Sadler’s Wells, London 2027 edition.

A recipient of the Chloe Munro Fellowship, Jenni premiered Faraway with Australian Dance Theatre at Adelaide Festival in 2026 and presented her durational installation Body Shells as part of Hobart Current at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, continuing to expand her choreographic language across performance, installation, and interdisciplinary practice.

Alongside her choreographic work, Jenni is an experienced rehearsal director, educator, and facilitator. Her teaching practice is informed by trauma-aware approaches that prioritise agency, care, curiosity, and collaboration. Drawing from contemporary dance, Body-Mind Centring, Feldenkrais, yoga, gymnastics, and pole dance, her classes aim to cultivate strength, flow, and adaptability, while fostering confidence, trust and group harmony.

She is currently the Balnaves Artist In Residence at Sydney Dance Company.

List of Choreographic works:

‘All Expenses Paid’ (Co-choreographer) - Stompin, Mona Foma 2021 (TAS)

‘Trio for Harp, Musician & Dancer’ (with Emily Sanzaro) - Tasdance, Ten Days On The Island 2021 (TAS)

‘Faux Mo House Party’ - Mona Foma 2022 (TAS)

‘Wet Hard’ - Winner of the Keir Choreographic ‘People’s Choice Award’ 2022 (NSW/VIC)

‘Flesh Net’ - WAAPA 2022 (WA)

’S U C K E R’ - Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed 2022 (NSW)

‘Body Body Commodity’ - Mona Foma 2023 (TAS)

‘Phantom Femme Fatale’ - Redline Productions, The Old Fitz (NSW) 2023, Desert Festival (NT) 2024 & Horizon Festival (QLD) 2025 

‘Synthetic Seduction’ - Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year Program, Carriage Works 2023 (NSW)

‘Truth Beauty Suffering’ - Australasian Dance Collective, for Ohm Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse 2024 (QLD)

‘Wet Hard Long’ - Dancehouse 2024 (VIC) The Arts Centre, Melbourne 2025 & INDance Sydney Dance Company 2026 (NSW) - Green Room Nomination for Best Visual Design 2025 & Nomination for the
Rose International Dance Prize, Sadler’s Wells, London 2027 edition.

‘WILDS’ - ROOKE Circus, Ten Days On The Island 2025 (TAS) Winner of the Tasmanian Theatre Judges’ Special Award for choreography and creative leadership

‘Mothership’ - with Pat Toh for Cont.act Festival and Vector #5 Dance Nucleus, Singapore 2024 & 2025

‘Caramel Bride’ - Junction Arts Festival, Artists At The Table event (TAS) 2025

‘LIP’ - Pieces, Lucy Guerin Inc, The Union Theatre Melbourne (VIC) 2025

‘Body Shells’ - Hobart Current: Here, The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TAS) 2025-2026

‘Faraway’ - Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide Festival (SA) 2026