Jenni Hong's Page

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Jenni Hong

About Me:

Jenni Hong, made in Taiwan, is a choreographer, performer and improviser. She has worked and collaborated with artists including Kirstie Simson, Jana Hicks, Taipei Dance Circle, Guido Tuveri, and Gina Gibney Dance, among others. From 2004 – 2008, she taught Yoga and movement awareness to survivors of domestic violence in New York City and was a guest teacher at Tisch, NYU as part of the Artist in Residency Festival with Gina Gibney Dance. Jenni is currently a company member with Delirious Dances/Edisa Weeks, and Erica Essner Performance Co-Op. Her choreography has been presented in Taiwan, Italy and the United States. In New York City, Jenni’s work has been seen at dancenOw/NYC, Danspace Project’s “Food for Thought” series, Joyce Soho, Dance Space Center, RAW Materials at Dance New Amsterdam, The Puffin Room, and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She graduated cum laude from Clark University and received her MA in psychology from Columbia University.

Jenni will be showing a new version of "No Rice" at Dixon Place on 11/11/2009 at 8PM.
Reserve your ticket now at dixonplace.org or 212-219-0736!

"No Rice" consumes various definitions of "rice" and spits them back out in an indulgent dance essay that examines what happens when grains of personality are shaken and stirred.