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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY 

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Jenny Gerena is a Phoenix based choreographer, performing artist, teaching artist and photographer. She is an alumna of Scottsdale Community College, Sam Houston State University and Arizona State University, where she received an MFA in Dance in 2016. She has presented her work at the Florida Dance Festival, Multi-Purpose Project (NYC), Breaking Ground Dance Festival (AZ), BlakTina Dance Festival (AZ) and The Dance Gallery Festival (TX & NYC). Most recently she created a work at The Phoenix Art Museum for a First Friday event celebrating the opening of the exhibition: Teotihuacan City of Fire, City of Water. 

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Since 2014 she has been choreographer in residence at Scottsdale Community College, working with their pre-professional performance company, Instinct Dance Corps. where she has created eight works to date. Jenny also serves as Adjunct Faculty in Modern Dance at two Maricopa Community

Colleges, Glendale CC and Scottsdale CC. Along with her dance work, Jenny is actively developing her voice as a visual artist in photography. She is well known in the valley for capturing live dance performances and movement portraits for local dance artists, companies, colleges and universities. She has received four “photo of the month” awards through a dance magazine publication, AZ Dance Star. Jenny’s most recent honor is being named “Best Dancer” by the Phoenix New-Times in the "2018 Best Of Phoenix" issue which states: 

“...Gerena uses the female body, including her own dark, free-flowing hair, to write the poetry of women's strength and solidarity through movement.”