Jennifer Archibald - Dance Faculty

Jennifer Archibald, founder and artistic director of the Arch Dance Company, has performed across the U.S. at major venues including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Aaron Davis Hall, The Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC, The Duke on 42nd Street, The Colony Theatre in Miami Beach, Judson Memorial Church and MTV, as well as in Europe, Russia and Canada. 

She has staged various off-Broadway shows working with casts from Bring In Da Noise / Bring In Da Funk and Cats, and has choreographed for the musicals Carousel, The Music Man, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Pippin for professional theater companies.  She has worked with chart-listed singers Ludacris and Shaggy as well as French actress Audrey Tautou and other actors as a movement specialist and choreographer.  Jennifer has also choreographed for the NBA New York Knicks City Dancers and The Alvin Ailey School, and is currently on faculty at Dance New Amsterdam where she teaches Contemporary Jazz and Hip Hop.

She is a long-time faculty member at the Bates Dance Festival and Florida Dance Festival and has also done numerous outreach projects within the New York City Public School system, including having been hired by designer Tommy Hilfiger as a guest artist to teach inner city youth.  

Jennifer is a graduate of the Alvin Ailey School and of the Maggie Flannigan Acting Conservatory specializing in the Meisner technique.