Jennifer Weber – Choreographer/Dancer

Jennifer Weber, accomplished choreographer and Artistic Director of Decadancetheatre, will be in residence at Boston University from October 5th-8th, 2015. Cosponsored by the department of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance and the BU Arts Initiative.

Thursday, October 8th at 9 pm: Come see BU dancers choreographed by Jenn, followed by a performance of Decadancetheatre‘s “A Hollywood Classic” at the BU Dance Theatre – 915 Commonwealth Ave (Buick St. Doors). The performance is free and open to the public.

Check out the Promo Video for “A Hollywood Classic”

“Outstanding Emerging Choreographer” New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) nominee, Jennifer Weber is the artistic director of theatrical hip-hop theatre company, Decadancetheatre, Weber’s work has toured across the US, UK, Japan and France in venues such as Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The Apollo, The Kennedy Center, London’s Southbank Center, The Everyman in Liverpool, New York City Center, San Francisco Hip-Hop Dance Festival, and Bumbershoot in Seattle. She has also choreographed for the NBA’s Miami Heat, American Express, Uber, Ulta, L’Oreal Matrix, Reebok, Bloomberg, Philosophy, Marc Jacobs, CK1 and UK TV show, Blue Peter. Recently she choreographed the US Premier of Bryony Lavery’s Stockholm at Stageworks/Hudson, Trouble, A New Rock Musical at NYMF and James Brown–Get On the Good Foot for The Apollo Theater with director Otis Sallid and assisted Tony Award winner George Faison (The Wiz) on the Sankofa Dance Project. Currently, Weber is the director and choreographer of The Hip Hop Nutcracker, which will tour the US in the 2015 holiday season. Weber holds a BA in Communications (Cum Laude) from the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of Lincoln Center Director’s Lab.

All BU students are invited to attend one or more of Jennifer’s guest taught classes at Fitrec.
Please RSVP to budance@bu.edu with which class(es) you plan to attend.

Jennifer’s schedule is as follows:
(All classes will be held in FitRec L240 unless otherwise noted)

Monday, 10/5
2-3:30pm – Beginning Jazz
3:30-5pm – High Intermediate Modern/Contemporary

Tuesday, 10/6
9:30-10:20am – Hip Hop
10:30-11:20am – Hip Hop
12:30-2pm – Lo Int. Jazz

Wednesday, 10/7
10-10:50am – CardioJazz
11-11:50am – CardioJazz
5-6pm – AfroJazz

Thursday, 10/8
11am-12:30pm – Hi Int Jazz (FitRec L137)
4-5:30pm – Low Intermediate Modern
7-8:30pm – Class & structured improvisation for Dance Theatre Group & guests
9-10pm – Informal Performance in the Boston University Dance Theater

RSVP to keep up-to-date on details!

Co-Sponsored by BU PERD.