| Jeanine Thompson (Associate Professor, Department of Theatre) has long been interested in the collaborative potential of movement and theatre art forms. Her dance training began at the prestigious Virginia Tanner School of Children’s Creative Dance in Salt Lake City, Utah, and includes study at The Ohio State University Department of Dance (BA and MFA), the University of Utah departments of Modern Dance and Theatre, the American Conservatory Theatre of San Francisco, the Goldston School for Mimes, and with Marcel Marceau. Since moving to Ohio in 1985, Jeanine has been a faculty member of the Goldston School for Mimes, Ohio Wesleyan University, and BalletMet, teaching a wide range of modern dance, acting and mime techniques. Jeanine is now Assistant Professor of Stage Movement and Acting for The Ohio State University Department of Theatre. Her classes include movement fundamentals, Laban and Text, Anne Bogart’s Viewpoints Training, Marcel Marceau’s Mime Technique and performance and creation of original work.
Jeanine has been actively involved in national and regional Artists-in-Education programs, and touring her solo and company performances through the Ohio Arts Council’s (OAC) Touring Free-Support program. She is also a recipient of an OAC Choreography Fellowship. Jeanine performed her solo show Bright Exhalation in 1998 at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. In 1999 she premiered a work called Breaking the Current.
education
MFA in Dance Choreography, The Ohio State University
BFA in Dance, The Ohio State University
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