Jazelynn Goudy

About

Jazelynn Goudy (Pronounced Jaz-Lin / Jaz- Uh-Lin / Jaz- LEAN) is a Dancer, Educator, Veteran Artist, and Homie from Milwaukee, WI. A budding interdisciplinary performing artist scholar, Jazelynn focuses on black women and girls’ social and contemporary dance in concerts, the internet, and social spaces. She utilizes interactive media, light, and loop pedal sound to convey black Midwestern social and contemporary dance with a deep relationship to social change. She received her MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University. She also studied at Urban Bush Women’s Summer Leadership Institute, Germaine Acogny Ecole des Sables school in Senegal, and Ko-Thi West African Dance Company. She has worked with artists such as Marguerite Hemmings, Millicent Johnnie, Chesney Snow, Marianne Harkless Diabate, Andre Zachery/Renegade Performance Group, Norah Zuniga-Shaw and Livable Futures, Sydnie L Mosely and performed with Signature Dance Company and REVAMP Performance Group in Milwaukee, WI. Jazelynn is a Boston Theater Critic Association Elliot Norton Award Winning choreographer for Outstanding Choreography for SpeakEasy Stage rendition of Once On This Island. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Marymount Manhattan College, a Social Media Manager, a new Steering Committee member of the Coalition of Diasporan Scholars Moving, and founder of Embodied (Hip Hop) Scholars Crew, a Guest Artist for SLMDances, and an Artivist at Street Dance Activism.

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