Jane Jerardi

Jane Jerardi is a performer, choreographer, and artist based in Washington, D.C. She has created work for a variety of contexts – from theaters and galleries to record store listening booths, public subway escalators and projected videos – creating work that often moves fluidly between media. A frequent collaborator - she's created work with a host of artists including dance artists Ginger Wagg and Maré Hieronimus; composers Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) and Lucas Zarwell; and visual artists Michael Wichita and Agata Olek, among others.

A three-time recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Young Emerging Artist award, her work has been presented throughout the metropolitan DC area - including at Transformer, The Warehouse, Dance Place, and the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage - as well as in New York at the Joyce Soho and at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, and in Shepherdstown, WV at the Goose Route Festival.

Most recently, her work Efficiency was commissioned by the Washington Performing Arts Society and presented at GALA's Tivoli Theatre in Washington DC. And, she received a New Media grant award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities to complete her newest project, Façade, which was presented in DC in early October 2006, with collaobrators Ginger Wagg, Michael Wichita, and Rebecca Mills and Tristana Fiscella of The Caution Curves.

In 2004, she curated floor plan in which she and three other artists’ “choreographed miniatures” were performed within “arm’s reach of the audience” (Washington Post). In Spring 2005, building on the success of this show, she co-presented IN SITE, a series of three multi-disciplinary performance events in D.C. featuring commissions of over a dozen artists, with collaborator Ginger Wagg.

Active in the improvisation community, she has performed in multiple years of the Annual D.C. International Improvisation Festival and facilitated the Monday Night Laboratory, an improvisation project and collective. Jerardi has taught as a guest artist at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia; at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana; and currently teaches yoga to adults. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she studied dance and cultural studies.