JENNIFER HARGE

Jennifer Harge is a choreographer, performance artist, and educator. Since 2014, she has developed her work almost exclusively in Detroit, creating performances, films, installations, artist residencies, and community fellowship gatherings that critically engage the interior, geographic, and metaphysical worlds of Black life.

Her collaborative and community-focused artistic processes have garnered commissions from The Saint Louis Black Repertory Company, Wexner Center for Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, AUNTS, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Daring Dances, and several other organizations and universities across the country.

Harge is currently the inaugural Salt Roads Artist Fellow in the Department of Black Study at University of California-Riverside; recently, she was the Alma Hawkins Visiting Memorial Chair in Dance at UCLA and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania where she taught courses on Black Feminist Thought and Performance Composition.

She is the recipient of the Ruth Award (2025); Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists (2025); Dance/USA Archiving and Preservation Fellowship (2023); Flourish Fund Grant (2022); Wexner Center for Arts Artist in Residence (2021); Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (2019); Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant for Queer Women+ Dance Artists by Queer| Art (2018); and Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow (2017).  

Harge holds an MFA in Dance from University of Iowa and a BFA in Dance from University of Michigan.