“You never know quite what you’re in for with this ultra-talented dancer, who creates extraordinary movement/sound pieces in which the body becomes the most versatile of instruments, playing the music of an invisible dimension.”
– LA Weekly
Preview:
The Wilds
“Dance and Digital Technology Fuse in an Immersive Performance in Middlebury”
Review:
The Wilds
“The Call of The Wilds”
“ . . . the audience was taken on an immersive journey through movement, live electronics, and motion capture technology . . . The Wilds presents the resonating truths of the oldest story in the world: light, fallen into darkness and then redeemed, in a totally new way.”
Review:
MASS
“…choreographer Laurel Jenkins’ ecstatic, be-in-style movement and her dancer’s participatory gesticulations — is a mash-up of a mega-church sermon and a production of Hair.”
MASS
Review:
Oedipus Rex / Symphony of Psalms
“Ismene [is] played by dancer Laurel Jenkins (whose dance scene ends the oratorio with flair and tremendous emotional intensity)”
Cycles Scores
Soma Path
B A S E
Book of Change
Review:
The L.A. Contemporary Dance Company SE4SONS
Trisha Brown in the New Body
Review:
The Wilds
“Take an immersive, multi-medium trip into The Wilds“
Interview:
Beacon Fire
Community Through Dance: An Interview with Laurel Jenkins
“When the body speaks through movement, there is a directness and specificity, because the body is always in the present moment. And I think that’s when real change happens and when we experience joy, and that’s when people really come together.”
Announcement:
Beacon Fire
Review:
MASS
“Another highlight is Laurel Jenkins’ choreography, which when she wasn’t having to re-create Studio 54, allowed for extraordinary abstract solos and groups whirling like dervishes. She and Pulitzer used bodies for their imagery, magnificently in the three orchestral ‘Meditations.'”
MASS
“…ebullient choreography by Laurel Jenkins”
MASS
Review:
Oedipus Rex / Symphony of Psalms
“Laurel Jenkins, as Antigone’s sister Ismene, was a graceful supernumerary during the opera and a gorgeously graceful, very human dancer during the Symphony of Psalms.”
How to Actually Make Your Movement Look Effortless
Fowler Museum
Interview:
Technique My Way: Laurel Tentindo