my name is jenna.
I move, make, and catch people moving.
I have been moving since the very beginning. I am fascinated with my relationship to gravity- and have always been trying to find ways to prolong the feeling that comes out of messing with it. My practice makes me feel like I can be in conversation with something I am at the mercy of, which is change. My body is this space that holds change the truest and most sensitively. We have each been given these vessels to hold and process all there is to sense in the world as we move through it. There is so much to take in. I feel very lucky to be overwhelmed by it all. This conversation between all of this motion inside of me and all of this motion outside of me asks to be patient, to be urgent, to let go, to hold on tighter, to be vulnerable, to give more weight, to trust in the most extreme places, to let things hang in the air, to come back to them in time, to be puzzled by them, to negate them, to pause with them, to thank them.
Jenna Davis (she/her) is a freelance dancer and creator. She graduated from SMU Meadows School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance and a BA in Film Media Arts. She has worked with Mike Esperanza, Molissa Fenley, Cameron McKinney, Matthew Neenan, Olga Rabetskaya, Thar be Dragons (Annamari Keskinen and Ryan Mason)(b12), FLOCK Works (Orsolina28), Ella Rothschild, Ethan Colangelo, and Tom Weinberger (NuovaX). She performed as a company artist with B.Moore Dance for multiple seasons beginning in 2022, continuing to do project-based work with the company. She has also worked with Bombshell Dance Project and OR Collective.
Jenna is also a movement photographer and filmmaker. She creates media for company performances and process, portraits, headshots, movement shots, portfolio developing, short films, and marketing content. Her work has been featured in programming at the Joyce Theatre for American Dance Platform, Edinburgh Fringe Fest, Dallas Contemporary, B.Moore Dance, Finding Compassion, Moving Forward WinterFest, Royale Ballet Academy, SMU Meadows Dance, SMU Meadows Theatre, Sway Dance Center, UrbanPC, 6 O’Clock Dance Theatre, and Grackle Dance Collective.