Jennie Becker (St. Paul, MN) received her early dance training from Midwest Youth Dance Theater in St. Paul, MN. She received her B.A. in Theatre/Dance and Biology from Luther College in May, 2010. There she trained with Jane Hawley and Amanda Hamp in Modern and Contact Improvisation.Throughout her collegiate years, Jennie was able to train and dance with Zenon Dance Company and School and Rainy Day Cabaret in Minneapolis, MN. She is excited to begin her dance career in such a vibrant city with TheMASSIVE, and feels lucky to be surrounded by an amazing group of people.
Now that we are officially past the winter season, it is starting to get pretty hot out quickly. Many dancers love this time of year. It’s a time when warming up is easier and staying warm isn’t even a question. The one downside is that now we are sweating more and for longer periods of [...]
Every once in a while a dancer is faced with with many weeks or months without a day off. Whether that is rehearsing, performing, teaching or all three it can be pretty draining on the mind and body. There are a few ways that you can make sure to take care of all of you. [...]
Not only is River North Dance Dance Chicago performing this weekend at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie IL, they are also hosting two very special events: Special Panel Discussion and Women in Motion. Both events are very tantalizing for the performing artists and well as those who are dance enthusiasts. [...]
February 23, 2013 – 5:56 pm
Everyone wants to know how dancers get any job from an audition. Well for the most part you will never know for sure why on dancer gets picked over another. There is a wide range of qualities that a director is looking for form height, body type, eye color, to overall movement quality. There will [...]
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Tagged Chicago Dance Auditions, Chicago Dance Supply, dance, dance company auditions, giordaono jazz dance chicago, inaside chicago dance, river north dance company chicago, thodos dance chicago, Visceral Dance Center
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December 29, 2012 – 10:11 am
For many years, “cleanses” have been in the media as something to do in order to flush out your system to “start over”. However, if you really look into many of these great bodily cleanses you see that most of the time you can’t do anything else while doing them, and they often last around [...]
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Tagged ballet, Chicago Dance Supply, cleanse, dance, dancer, diet for dancers, jazz, Modern dance, pointe, tap
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November 21, 2012 – 4:40 pm
The big day is tomorrow and every year I think that I am going to not over stuff myself on some of the best food all year, and every year I’m on the couch a few hours later sleeping off my food coma. Well, this yes is going to be different with these few helpful [...]
November 18, 2012 – 4:06 pm
For years and years we have heard from the media that 8, 8oz glasses of water is what every person should be drinking on a daily basis. Like most media driven dietary suggestions I began to question the number 8. I started thinking, is 8 just an average number that they found? How do I [...]
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Tagged ballet, chicago dance, Chicago Dance Supply, dance, dancer, jazz, modern, tap, water, Water and Dance
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