About Jane

Jane Jerardi is a time-based artist, who creates choreographies, performances, videos, installations, and audience encounters. She has created projects for a range of contexts — from theaters and galleries to record store listening booths, public subway escalators, and projected videos — in work that moves fluidly between media. She is on faculty and staff at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where she teaches video for dance and choreography. She also video documents the venue and program’s extensive performances, having documented well over 250 performances and events in her time there, while maintaining the Dance Center’s leading regional archive of dance video documentation and materials dating from 1980 to the present. Her creative work has been presented by spaces such as the Joyce Soho, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, the LUMEN Festival (in New York); Links Hall, 6018North, Sector 2337, and defibrillator performance gallery (Chicago); at Transformer, The Warehouse, Dance Place, and the Kennedy Center (in Washington, DC), among others. Her work has been commissioned by the Creative Communities Fund and the Washington Performing Arts Society and supported through creative residencies at Links Hall and Sector 2337 (Chicago). In 2019, she received a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist award. She has received numerous awards from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities including its artist fellowship, new media grant, and young emerging artist awards. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Performance and a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she studied choreography, art history, and literature.

Headshot by Philip Dembinski
Movement photo by William Frederking