2023 Oklahoma Arts Conference

"Promise in the Road Ahead"

Kayla Jenkins
Kayla Jenkins began her professional career as a choreographer in 2007 upon receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Central Oklahoma. Her performance credits and choreography have been represented from coast to coast including the American College Dance Festival, Pilot Dance Festival with Muscle Memory Dance Theatre & Houston Fringe Festival, Works in Progress (NYC), Arkansas Festival Ballet, and Artist in Resonance, Fresno Fringe Festival, Meow Wolf (NM), Factory Obscura, The Exchange, Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival, PM2 & Perpetual Motion Dance (OK) touring and repertory work. Jenkins has extensive teaching credentials and currently serves as the Perpetual Motion Dance Executive Director, featured choreographer, aerialist, and instructor specializing in Lyra. Jenkins is also the Executive Director of The Studio Theatre in Little Rock and was recently selected as an Artist INC Fellow through the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

Kayla Jenkins's Schedule

The Big Voices Project (featuring Perpetual Motion Dance)
Date: Thursday – October, 19 2023 Time: 1:45pm - 2:45pm Room: Great Plains Ballroom D
Created by Perpetual Motion Dance, The Big Voices Project is a contemporary dance performance that coalesces the honest narratives of veterans and military-connected individuals with music and abstract choreography, resulting in a powerful artistic experience. Perpetual Motion Dance leaders will share how the project was conceived and developed and how grant support from the Oklahoma Arts Council and Mid-America Arts Alliance was key for producing an original work that continues to evolve and tour beyond Oklahoma.

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