JENNIFER HARGE

Jennifer Harge is a choreographer, performance artist, and educator rooted in the legacies and futures of Black experimental performance and Black spiritual traditions. 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.

Harge’s 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.

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). Her creative research has been supported by international residency programs including Bogliasco Study Center, (Italy), Yaddo (NY, USA), Djerassi (CA, USA), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL, USA), and New Waves! Institute (Trinidad).

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