Woman with gray hair that is blonde on the ends. She wears circular glasses and a patterned cardigan under a jacket. She is speaking into a microphone.

photo: Erik Zennstrom

Jennifer Mascall
choreographic collaborator

Jennifer Mascall is a committed dance innovator, practitioner, educator, mentor, and advocate, she encourages new generations of artists through collaboration, creation, choreographic residencies, intensives, and dialogue. Jennifer’s somatic movement inquiry is informed by studies with two American master teachers: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Linda Putnam. Prior to starting her own company - MascallDance in 1982 - she had an international career as a solo improviser, and co-founded GRID, TIDE and EDAM, all collectives. Her early interests were written dances, which developed into Dial A Dance phone-in dance orders; and Footnotes, an anthology containing the written notes of 60 choreographers.

Jennifer has received the Canada 125 Confederation Commemorative Medal, the Clifford E. Lee Choreographic Award, the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize, a Dora Mavor Moore Award, a Jessie Richardson Award, the Ann O’Connor Award, International Woman’s Day Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Best Performers Award (The Brutal Telling), the F.A.N.S. Distinguished Artist Award, and an Isadora for outstanding contribution to dance in B.C.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Jennifer’s original work Lessness (1974) was distilled and adapted for the stage play Beautiful Renegades and filmed for Choreographic Gems.

For more information visit: mascalldance.ca