Jodi Leigh Allen
jodia@dance.umass.edu
Amherst
Dancer/Choreographer
Jodi Leigh Allen was born and raised in Douglas, Massachusetts. She received her B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Shenandoah University in Virginia and her M.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Ms. Allen has performed in Julie Taymor’s Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) as well as Romeo et Juliette at The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. In 2006, she was a featured dancer in several revue shows at The Occidental Grand Resort in Aruba. Most recently, Ms. Allen spent six months dancing aboard the Regent Seven Seas Voyager sailing throughout the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas. She has been a member of Malashock Dance and Company in California, and was privileged to study and perform the tango with actor Robert Duvall. Her choreography has been performed at The American College Dance Festival's National Gala at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. as well as other venues both nationally and internationally. She is former Director of Dance for The Pomfret School in Connecticut. In 2008, Ms. Allen joined the dance faculty at The University of Massachusetts Amherst, returned to teach jazz at the Harvard University Dance Program, is currently teaching and choreographing at Deerfield Academy, and is a new company member of Guidance, Inc. in Groton, Massachusetts.
