ABOUT

Emily Jensen is an educator, choreographer, and performer based in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area. She graduated with her MFA in Dance from Texas Woman's University in 2023, her BA in Dance Education from the same institution in 2020, and her AA in Dance from Kilgore College in 2017.  Currently, Emily serves as an Adjunct Professor of Dance at the University of North Texas, and Assistant Coach of the Texas Woman's University Dance Team. She is also an Administrative Staff with Danceline USA and Instructor/Choreographer with The Dance Center.

 

Emily’s twenty years in professional movement training spans several genres including modern, jazz, tap, hip hop, contemporary, musical theater, ballet, and drill/dance team forms. She has premiered stage and video dance works within concert, competition, and festival spaces both locally and internationally. Emily also works to grow her scholarship, presenting at National Dance Education Organization’s National Conference (2023) and co-writing a chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Ballet Pedagogy (2025). Her research involves dance ecologies, exploring intersectional relationships between viewers, dancers, objects, sounds, spaces, etc. -- and how they may shift -- within her interdisciplinary work.  

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