Jinza Thayer
Jinza Thayer_RehCalendar.docx.pdfChoreographer: JINZA THAYER
PERFORMANCES
Friday, January 20th
Saturday, January 21st
PERFORMANCE LOCATION
Pearson Theater at Concordia College
312 Hamline Avenue N.
St. Paul, MN 55104
DJinza Thayer/Movement Architecture is interested in how cultural ideas are living in the physical body. These ideas will be unearthed using imaginative prompts with both improvised and set movement. We will create both a physically and intellectually challenging work, where the cast will have the opportunity to explore the roles of performer, choreographer, and director.
After spending the first six years in Japan, DJinza Thayer grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received an MFA in Dance at George Mason University. Based in the Twin Cities, she presents her work as Movement Architecture (MA). As MA, Jinza has created over sixty original works and has been a two-time semi-finalist for France’s Rencontres choregraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Bagnolet) in 1999 and 2001. In 2010, MA received the SAGE Award for Choreographic Concept and Design. Jinza has received two McKnight Artist Fellowship for Choreographers (2004, 2019) and numerous grants from Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and American Composer’s Forum, among others.
Jinza has taught generations of emerging choreographers and dancers during twenty-five years at Zenon Dance Company and School in Minneapolis and as a guest instructor for various universities.