Jenni Hong

Office: WSQ 104D
408-924-5044
jenni.hong@sjsu.edu

Jenni Hong, a transplant from New York and Taipei, is a dance director, choreographer, educator, performer and improviser.  She is the artistic director of Jenni Hong Dance,
founded in 2005. Hong holds a M.A. degree in psychology from Columbia University and is a RYT-500 Yoga teacher. She was a guest teacher at Tisch, NYU as part of the Artist in Residency Festival with Gibney Dance and has taught Yoga and movement awareness to survivors of domestic violence, seniors, LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS communities in New York City for many years.  Her choreography has been presented in Taiwan, New York, and most recently at BAM Fisher Theater, Harlem Stage, Dance at Socrates Sculpture Park, Green Space, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, Wassaic Summer Festivals, and Movement Research Festival 2018 at Danspace Project.  For nearly 3 decades in New York, she danced professionally with artists including Kirstie Simson, Gibney Dance, Nathan Trice, Dance Forum Taipei, Erica Essner, David Appel, Edisa Weeks, Elise Knudson, Aviva Geismar, among others.  Hong has been the recipient of EMOVES 13 mentorship program at Harlem Stage, LMCC Manhattan Community Arts Fund, Triskelion Arts Space Subsidy Grant and CUNY Dance Initiative grant and residency from 2017 to 2019 where she created work and taught dance partnering workshops at Joffrey Dance Center and Queensborough Community College. Since moving to California in 2022, Hong’s choreography have been presented by ODC Theater in San Francisco, Bay Area Independent Chinese Dancers in Oakland, Taiwanese Cultural Festival in SF, sjDANCEco Festival and Palo Alto Arts Center. Hong currently teaches Choreography, Dance Improvisations, Contact Improvisation and Contemporary Dance techniques at San Jose State University.