Jen holds an MS in Pharmacology/Toxicology from Dartmouth College and works in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at QCOM, which she claims helps balance out All That Dance. She started out at age 10 with modern technique classes and improvisation and branched out into African/Brazilian and aerial dance over time. She has also studied yoga practice, theory and history and has taught vinyasa and aerial yoga classes for several decades.
Jen has taught modern dance, aerial dance, improvisation, composition and dance history at ETSU since 2005. In 2009, she took over as the artistic director of Mountain Movers Dance Company, ETSU’s resident modern/aerial dance company, first created by Judith Woodruff and Doug Nelson in 1986.
Jen has studied over many years at the American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Aerial Dance Festival in Boulder, and at New England Center for Circus Arts. These experiences helped to hone her skills and give her great compassion for students struggling to learn complicated material. She takes special care to make her classes accessible, fun and safe for all of her students.