Jessica Bonenfant Coogan

Jessica Bonenfant Coogan is an interdisciplinary director and choreographer. Her work, a blend of movement, text and striking imagery, has been seen across the U.S. in a variety of traditional and site-specific spaces, as well as on film. She has created six evening length new works for her company, Lola Lola Dance Theatre, and her most recent project received support from the National Endowment for the Arts via Chashama’s Windows program. Jessica has been an artist-in-residence at The Field, The Silo and at Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme, France. She is a certified yoga teacher and a member of CDP/NYC, a group that practices performance improvisation grounded in Buddhist philosophy.

Jessica will be teaching modern dance technique, composition, and rehearsing the dance company as sabbatical replacement for the director of the dance program at Grand Valley State University in Spring 2014. She is also a frequent guest teaching-artist for the Department of Theatre and Film at University of Toledo. She holds an MFA in choreography from University of Michigan, where she has taught dance technique, composition and improvisation, and earned her BA in dance from Marymount Manhattan College.