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Laurel Jenkins
LA Opera: movement for Hildegard (2025, debut).
Laurel Jenkins is a dancer and interdisciplinary choreographer working in the realms of contemporary dance, opera, music, theater and visual art. Dance magazine calls her “a study in fluid energy.” Jenkins first worked with director Elkhanah Pulitzer as the choreographer of Bernstein’s Mass with the LA Philharmonic and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. Her choreography has been presented by REDCAT, Automata, the Getty Center, Show Box LA, Danspace, Berlin’s Performing Presence Festival, Tokyo’s Sezane Gallery, and Paris’ Cité Internationale des Arts. In addition, she has choreographed for LA Contemporary Dance Company, The Wooden Floor, and many universities.
Jenkins was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2007 to 2012, and has restaged Brown’s works internationally. She danced in works by her mentors Vicky Shick and Sara Rudner. Jenkins performed the role of Ismene in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex/Symphony of Psalms directed by Peter Sellars and solos by Merce Cunningham in the Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event.
Jenkins is the recipient of a Vermont Arts Council Grant, an Asian Cultural Council Grant and a French Institute Fellowship. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence, an MFA from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, and is certified to teach the Skinner Releasing Technique. She is an Associate Professor and Chair of Dance at Middlebury College in Vermont where she lives with her family.
Laurel Jenkins is a dancer and interdisciplinary choreographer working in the realms of contemporary dance, opera, music, theater and visual art. Dance magazine calls her “a study in fluid energy.” Jenkins first worked with director Elkhanah Pulitzer as the choreographer of Bernstein’s Mass with the LA Philharmonic and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. Her choreography has been presented by REDCAT, Automata, the Getty Center, Show Box LA, Danspace, Berlin’s Performing Presence Festival, Tokyo’s Sezane Gallery, and Paris’ Cité Internationale des Arts. In addition, she has choreographed for LA Contemporary Dance Company, The Wooden Floor, and many universities.
Jenkins was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2007 to 2012, and has restaged Brown’s works internationally. She danced in works by her mentors Vicky Shick and Sara Rudner. Jenkins performed the role of Ismene in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex/Symphony of Psalms directed by Peter Sellars and solos by Merce Cunningham in the Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event.
Jenkins is the recipient of a Vermont Arts Council Grant, an Asian Cultural Council Grant and a French Institute Fellowship. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence, an MFA from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, and is certified to teach the Skinner Releasing Technique. She is an Associate Professor and Chair of Dance at Middlebury College in Vermont where she lives with her family.