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Jarchdance (talk) 03:50, 12 April 2020 (UTC)===== Jarchdance (talk) 03:50, 12 April 2020 (UTC)== Jennifer Archibald == =====

''' Jennifer Archibald is a choreographer who blends urban aesthetics with classical ballet and modern dance.Founder and Artistic Director of Archcore40 and Arch Dance Company. She is the first female and black female appointed as resident choreographer for Cincinnati Ballet in its 40 year history.

Life and Career
JENNIFER ARCHIBALD is the founder and Artistic Director of the Arch Dance Company and Program Director of ArchCore40 Dance Intensives. She is a graduate of The Alvin Ailey School and the Maggie Flanigan Acting Conservatory where she studied the Meisner Technique. Archibald has choreographed for the Atlanta Ballet, Ailey II, Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Memphis, Kansas City Ballet, Tulsa Ballet II, Ballet Nashville; and worked commercially for Tommy Hilfiger, NIKE and MAC Cosmetics as well as chart-listed singers and actors. She was recently appointed the first female Resident Choreographer in Cincinnati Ballet’s 40-year history. She has created new works for Cincinnati Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, Ballet Nashville and Stockholm’s Balletakademien. In 2020 she well create works for Sacramento Ballet, Ballet West, Ballet Nashville, and Axis Dance Company.

Archibald’s works have been performed at venues including New York’s City Center, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Aaron Davis Hall, Jacob’s Pillow Inside|Out Stage and Central Park’s Summerstage Mainstage. She also choreographed “Seven”, a biographical work about Olympian [|Jackie Joyner-Kersee], commissioned by St. Louis based MADCO Dance Company. Her new work “Delilah” is currently touring Scandinavia. Arch Dance Company’s “Chasing Shadows” will be remounted for Dallas Black Dance Theater for their 2018/19 season. Jennifer is currently an Acting Lecturer at the Yale School of Drama.

In 2015, she was appointed as Guest Faculty Lecturer to develop the Hip Hop dance curriculum at Columbia/Barnard College. Jennifer is also a guest artist at several universities including Fordham/Ailey, Purchase College, Princeton, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of South Florida, Goucher College, Columbia College Chicago, and Bates College. She premiered new works for Miami New World School of the Arts, South Carolina’s Governor’s School of the Arts, Ailey Fordham, Boston Conservatory, and Point Park. In 202o Alabama University, New World, Missouri State, Tampa’s Blake High School and Jacksonville University will present Ms. Archibald’s new creations. Internationally, she has taught in Brazil, Bermuda, Canada, Italy, Slovenia, Sweden, France, Russia, Mexico, China, and Ecuador.

Projects and Awards
Jennifer was awarded a Choreographic Fellow for Ailey’s New Directions Choreography Lab under the direction of Robert Battle. She is 2015′s Choreographic Winnings recipient by the Joffrey Ballet. She served as the movement director for [|Michael Kahn's] [|Oreseteia] for the Shakespeare Movement Theatre.

Jarchdance (talk) 03:50, 12 April 2020 (UTC)