JENNIFER ARCHIBALD, Toronto-Brooklyn based artist is the founder and Artistic Director of the Arch Dance Company and Program Director of ArchCore40 dance intensives. She is a graduate of The Alvin Ailey School and the Maggie Flanigan Acting Conservatory where she studied the Meisner Technique. Archibald has choreographed for the Atlanta Ballet, Ailey II, Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Memphis, Kansas City Ballet, Tulsa Ballet II, and worked commercially for Tommy Hilfiger, NIKE and MAC Cosmetics as well as chart-listed singers and actors. In 2017 she will create new works as the resident choreographer for Cincinnati Ballet. Next season new works will be created for Ballet Nashville, Wylliams/Henry, MADCO and Stockholm's Ballettakademien. Archibald’s works have been performed at venues including New York's City Center, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Aaron Davis Hall and Jacob's Pillow Inside|Out Stage and Central Park's Summerstage Mainstage. In 2013, Jennifer was awarded a Choreographic Fellow for Ailey’s New Directions Choreography Lab under the direction of Robert Battle. She is 2015's Choreographic Winnings recipient by the Joffrey Ballet. She also choreographed “Seven”, a biographical work about Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee, commissioned by St. Louis based MADCO Dance Company. In 2017 she will create new works as the resident choreographer for Cincinnati Ballet. Spring 2015 her work was performed in Scandinavia, Germany, France and in the U.S. In 2015 she was appointed as guest faculty lecturer to develop the Hip Hop dance curriculum at Columbia/Barnard College and is currently on faculty at the Yale School of Drama. Jennifer is a guest artist at several universities; Fordham/Ailey, Purchase College, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of South Florida, Goucher College, Columbia College Chicago, and Bates College. This spring she will premier a new work for Miami New World School of the Arts and South Carolina's Governor's School of the Arts, and Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre.