Jennifer Harrison Newman

Jennifer Harrison Newman

 Jennifer Harrison Newman is a New York based choreographer and performer who works extensively across disciplines with artists pushing the boundaries of dance and theater. Her site-specifc and theatrical work includes: The Infinite Hotel (Prototype Festival); Angel’s Bone (Hong Kong New Visions Festival); Place (BAM/Next Wave Festival); If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must be a Motherfucker (Yale School of Drama); an installation/walking tour of Seneca Village in Central Park (Bard Graduate Center for Material Culture’s Focus Festival: Ritual and Capital); la ronde (International Festival of Arts & Ideas); Bread of Heaven (LABA Live); The Children (Yale School of Drama); Three Women (Ojai Playwrights Conference); Bulrusher (New Georges). Her performance installation, The Geneva Project, an interdisciplinary and immersive dance work directed by Charlotte Brathwaite has been presented at Yale University, Central Arts Festival in Seoul, Korea, JACK NYC, and Bronx Academy of Art and Dance (BAAD!). She has been an artist in residence at Princeton, Yale and Central Connecticut State Universities, The Field, Mabou Mines, Baryshnikov Arts Center, 651 Arts, and Sisters Academy Inkost, and has taught workshops across the United States, Sweden, South Africa, China, and Mexico.