Jennnifer Kayle
Jennifer Kayle is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, and an independent choreographer, dancer, and improvisational artist. This year, Kayle is co-creating “Virtually Yours,” a meditation on the poetry and politics of crossing the border, performing at Highways, Los Angeles (June), and The Centro Leon in Santiago, Dominican Republic (May). In 2009, she performed with Katherine at The Body/Word Festival in St. Petersburg Russia, and in 2008, premiered works in Chicago, Colorado, and in her first Joyce SoHo season in New York City. Other venues include the Minnesota Fringe Festival, Jacob’s Pillow’s “Inside/Out,” Big Range Dance Festival (Tex.), venues in Russia, Finland, Puerto Plata, D.R., and in the repertories of companies such as New ARTiculations (Tucson) and The Dance COLEctive (Chicago). Recent teaching adventures include Bates Dance Festival/Young Dancers Workshop 2009, co-creating an interdisciplinary improvisation course for dancers, musicians, and actors at U.Iowa, and co-teaching with Lisa at Links Hall, Chicago, and the Fort Wayne Dance Collective in Indiana. Recent teaching and compositional experiments include dancing with the “body of objects,” composing relationships between objects, dancers, and the surrounding architecture, (spaces that are “installed,” pre-existing or accidental). Jennifer is grateful to all her teachers, and also to continue her main improvisational research with The Architects, including composer/musician Michael Chorney, and designer Kathy Couch.
