About Jenny

A multifaceted artist based in Greater Boston, Jenny Oliver, serves as an educator, performer, choreographer, and arts advocate. Rooted in trauma-informed culturally responsive approaches, she weaves kinetic storytelling with dance and collective collaboration to create meaningful experiences. She believes that movement is the first form of communication, and has worked with an array of organizations including the Boston Center for the Arts, City of Boston, WBUR CitySpace, the Design Studio for Social Intervention, Castle of Our Skins, Museum of Science, MFA Boston, Peabody Essex Museum, and Masary Studios on projects that invite the public into creative placemaking. In addition to her art making practice she is the Head of Dance Performance at Tufts University, teaches weekly open adult modern dance technique classes in Cambridge and Somerville and recently became a Jacob’s Pillow Curriculum in Motion Practitioner.