Jenn Freeman

Jenn Freeman (she/they) is an Autistic American choreographer, dance performer, and educator based in New York City. Freeman is a New England Foundation for the Arts Recipient, O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance foundation recipient, and a New York State Council on the Arts grant award recipient. Most notably Freeman Co-Created, Co-Choreographed, and Starred in Is It Thursday Yet? a solo dance theater piece that invites you into the unique complexities of Freeman's neurodivergent brain through a tapestry of dance, original live music and home video footage. The world premiere was produced by La Jolla Playhouse followed by an NYC presentation for the inaugural season of The Perelman Performing Arts Center at World Trade Center (PAC NYC). Select commissions include: new work for Complexions Contemporary Ballet with a world premier at The Joyce Theater, A solo for American Ballet Theatre principal dancer, Cassandra Trenary, that premiered at Festival des arts de Saint-Sauveur and Martha Graham Dance Company. In 2019 Freeman's first evening-length dance theatre piece …it’s time… premiered to sold out audiences at the Theater at The 14th St Y in New York City. Freeman's choreography has been commissioned by The Juilliard School, Marymount Manhattan College, Wayne State University, BYU, and The University of Texas at Austin. For over a decade Jenn Freeman has served as Sonya Tayeh’s collaborator, associate and resident choreographer in the development of pieces for: The Gibney Company, American Ballet Theater, The Martha Graham Dance Company, Unveiling with Moses Sumney and dancers, Florence + the Machine, LA Ballet, The Juilliard School and Cirque du Soleil. Freeman is a graduate of TISCH School of the Arts, NYU. @jfreemover www.jennfreemandance.com