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| Jennine Willett is a choreographer, dancer, and director. Noted for her “lush, buoyant, full-bodied movement,” (Darrah Carr, The Dance Insider) she plays with time and space to create unexpected movement phrases and tempo manipulations that are engaging to the eye and speak to the explosive impulses within us. Her works reflect a sense of humanity ranging from the poignant to the pathetic, the wry to the downright silly. Drawing from subjects that are close to home and reflect her experiences, Willett creates dances that audiences can relate to. Exploring human dynamics, Willett’s pieces often single out the individual within a community, highlighting acceptance, isolation, and solitude within an urban landscape. Through experimentation and improvisation, Willett capitalizes on the individuality of her dancers, allowing a distinctive movement vocabulary to emerge and shape each piece. Jennine Willett is Co-Artistic Director of Third Rail Projects. Willett’s choreography has been presented in the U.S. at Dance Theater Workshop, the Merce Cunningham Studio, the Annual D.U.M.B.O. Dance Festival, the Blue Muse Dance Project at Theatre of the Riverside Church, Swarthmore College, Wooster College, Dance Theatre Workshop, La Mama, E.T.C., and Dance New Amsterdam. In Poland, she has presented solo concerts as well as commissioned work at various international dance festivals. Jennine Willett earned her M.F.A. in Performance and Choreography from Florida State University in 1996 and went on to join the Silesian Dance Theater, Poland’s first contemporary dance company. During her three-year stay in Eastern Europe, she performed and taught master classes and workshops throughout Poland and Germany, Russia, and the United States and served as a contributing editor to Dance Europe Magazine. In 2000, she was awarded a European Contemporary Dance Scholarship to participate in the danceWeb program in Vienna. As an educator, she served as an Associate in Performance at Swarthmore College, Guest Artist at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville Texas, and has taught classes at the Limon Institute in New York. Over the last seven years she has been studying athletic training and applying this knowledge to conditioning and injury-prevention for dancers, obtaining certifications as a Medical Exercise Specialist and Personal Trainer. Jennine’s most recent collaboration with husband Paul Millman resulted in the production of Owen, born in April 2006, and her work is shifting to include notions of art together with motherhood. |
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