Performance Resume | Teaching Resume

Jena Carpenter:

lt. brown hair, blue eyes
Ht. 5'5", Wt. 110
Tel: (818) 653-5629
Fax: (310) 455-0737

Education

Oberlin College, Bachelor of Arts, Dance with concentration on Circus Arts, 12/2000
San Francisco Circus Center, 1998-1999: focused on rope, trapeze, hand-balancing and contortion.
AcroSports San Francisco, 1999: coached, trained, and performed on rope, trapeze, and aerial hoop.

Film and Commercial:

"Soaptalk" - solo contortion

"Polar Express" - aerial hand-loop, mini-tramp, teeterboard

"King of Queens" Cirque Promo Spot - flexible hand-balancing, acrobatics

"Falling" - flexible hand-balancing

Sysqo and Dru Hill Music Video - aerial silks

OutKast Music Video - juggler, flexible hand-balancing

Circus Highlights:

FIDM Debut 2006 Fashion Gala: wire work playing Peter Pan

Circus Nexus "Rites and Rituals": solo contortion, duo hand-balancing

Mercedes Benz Press Days at 2006 LA Car Show: Aerial Silks

Morgan Stanley West Coast Gala: flexible hand-balancing, duo hand-to-hand

NBC Kids Christmas Party: interactive stilt-walking

Loony Tunes Premiere Party: flexible hand-balancing, duo hand-to-hand, aerial silks

Wang Center Performing Arts Gala: aerial silks, contortion

Eye of Newt Circus: 'Figments' : aerial silks, hand-balancing, acrobatics

Disney's 'Treasure Planet' Port of Discovery: juggler, character

Hewlett-Packard: contortion

Microsoft X-Box: contortion

Skills:

flexible hand-balancing, contortion, aerial silks, duo hand-to-hand, corde lisse, trapeze, cerceau, bungee, acrobatics, mini-trampoline, juggling, stilts, and much more!!