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Updated 11/18/2020

Jenna Pollack

  • Massachusetts

    MA

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

Jenna Pollack is a collaborative choreographer, performer, educator, administrator, and arts organizer. She is one of the Boston Center for the Arts and Boston Dance Alliance's Dancemaker Residents for the 2020-21 season alongside Victoria Awkward/VLA Dance, and was a 2020 finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Choreography. She has received support from the New England Foundation for the Arts, The City of Boston, and Assets for Artists at MASS MoCA.

For the 2019-20 season she was commissioned by the Olin College of Engineering, New Movement Collaborative, Hubbard Street Professional Program, The Reciprocity Collaborative, and Endicott College. She has choreographed for Bridge Repertory Theater, InDance Barcelona, Theater Felina-Areal Mannheim, Urbanity Dance, Boston Moving Arts Productions, Brandeis University Theater Department, Salem State University Theater Department, Providence College Dance Department, and in NYC focused on immersive performance with The Center for Innovation in the Arts at Juilliard and Dau al Set Productions. Additionally, she was the Dramaturg and Rehearsal Director for The Davis Sisters' 2018-2019 season.

She is a performer with Ali Kenner Brodsky, Betsy Miller, and Heather Stewart. She has previously danced for Bridge Repertory Theater, Scottish Dance Theatre, The Metropolitan Opera (Hofesh Shechter, Kim Brandstrup, Itzik Galili), American Repertory Theater, Bryan Arias, Equus Projects, and BOP Montréal. Beyond the stage, she is a Principal Dancer in the 2019 feature film 'Little Women' directed by Greta Gerwig, was in a music video for Arcade Fire's Will Butler, featured in Pantone's 'Make it Brilliant' ad campaign, a highlighted Harvard Business School Online alumnus, and guested on the Playbill podcast: The Compass.

Jenna holds an M.A. with Distinction in Choreography from the Institute of the Arts Barcelona, a Certificate with Honors from Harvard Business School Online’s CORe program, and a B.F.A. in Dance Performance from The Juilliard School. Additionally, she works in Public and Artist Relations for Springboard Danse Montréal, is a Dance Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Boston, and assists in marketing for The Lion's Jaw Festival. She teaches locally at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Salem State University, Boston Ballet School, and Urbanity Dance. She has worked as a dance educator for Lincoln Center Education, The New York City Department of Education, Together in Dance, Children’s Musical Theater Camp in Shenzhen, China, and Co-Directed The Arusha Arts Initiative in East Africa.​

View her CV here.

Find Me

Jenna Pollack
Job Title: Collaborative Choreographer, Movement Director, Performer, Educator, Administrator, Arts Organizer
Phone: 2247147517
Address:
516 E 2nd St
35
Boston, MA 02127

Additional Content:

  • BCA/BDA Residency with Olin College

    This is the first iteration of a jointly-constructed performance piece spanning the realms of sustainable design and choreography. After an August 2020 Premiere, the team aims to continue researching and performing the piece throughout New England.

  • Old North Church Residency

    Old North is both a National Park and an active place of worship - these layered, complex, and sometimes contradictory identities echo through the formal Georgian architecture.

  • In The Red

    An immersive performance where the audience joined the dancers as they descended down the north staircase of the UChicago arts center.

  • . . . and Smell the Roses

    Commissioned by the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Professional Program, the piece is a collaboration with visual pop-artist E.LEE at the Chicago Art Department. The dancers underwent an “art heist”, entangling the audience in an immersive experience.

  • the promenade

    A Spring 2019 commission for Urbanity Dance Company

  • foamed

    Commissioned by the InDance Barcelona Festival +reprised at the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival: A scaffolded exploration on fragile, fragmented inner workings. 2018

  • The Bacchae

    Choreographer and Movement Director for the Brandeis University Theater Department production

  • the flared place

    The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, commissioned by The Jewish Arts Collaborative

  • 'Work'

    Commissioned by Boston Moving Arts Productions, and premiered at the Boston Center for the Arts: Our trials and exaltations are like a perpetual, universal memory. 2018

  • Temperature

    Co-created and performed by myself and German dancer Michael Bronczkowski in Mannheim, Germany. It was commissioned and funded by the City of Mannheim and the Felina Theater. 2017

About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2013

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2013

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - Modern / Contemporary

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Artist Representation / Artist Management
  • Arts Criticism / Journalism
  • Arts for Social Change / Creative Activism
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Residency - Community
  • Residency - In School
  • Residency - Production / Development
  • Residency - Other
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 30

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Businesses
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Immigrant Populations
  • Incarcerated (or Formerly Incarcerated) individuals
  • Nonprofits
  • People with Disabilities
  • School Groups
  • Teens
  • Youth-At-Risk

Geographic Reach:

  • Multi-State Region
  • National
  • International

Accessibility of Services

Accessibility of Services:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Institute of Contemporary Art Boston: Dance Fellow 2018-2020
  • Public and Artist Relations for Springboard Danse Montréal, 2013-present

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Institute of Contemporary Art Boston: Dance Fellow 2018-2020
  • Public and Artist Relations for Springboard Danse Montréal, 2013-present

Awards

Awards:

  • Arts Envoy for U.S. Embassy to Colombia
  • MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists Program
  • The City of Boston’s Boston Opportunity Fund
  • Olin College of Engineering Sketch Model Summer Studio Award
  • he Dance Complex Visiting Artist Residency
  • The OnStage Dance Company Residency Program

Education

Education:

  • The Juilliard School: BFA Dance Performance, 2013
  • Institute of the Arts Barcelona: M.A. with Distinction in Dance, with focus on Interdisciplinary Producing and Choreography, 2017
  • Harvard Business School Online: Certificate, Pass with Honors, 2016

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Science / Technology / Engineering
  • Dance
  • Design
  • Theater

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Science / Technology / Engineering
  • Dance
  • Design
  • Theater

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Negotiated based on individual events
  • Minimum 900sqft of sprung dance floor

Fee Range:

$350 - $20,000

State of Residence:

Massachusetts

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

6