Check our Mrs. Jessica in Dance Studio Life Magazine! This article discusses contact improvisation and the importance of using it inside the studio! Having a director who has spent her life studying Contact Improvisation is such a huge bonus!! Getting to have in featured in Dance Studio Life is just icing on the cake :) 

Check out where our students go and what they are up to over the Summer months! Not only do we provide state of the art training year round, we encourage our students to spread their wings and attend other classes and intensives throughout the year! We are SO proud of these accomplishments...click the link to learn more!

4th Avenue Pilates offically opens the doors on it's brand new street level studio space! With new apparatus, an expanded faculty, and new class offerings, we are thrilled to bring a new energy to downtown! 

We were thrilled to offer the community an exciting day "camp" adventure with Twinkle (our resident Elf), while parents had a chance to do some last minute Holiday shopping and tree trimming. With over 20 people, the camp was a huge success! Campers took part in technique class, movement games, an Elf scavenger hunt, holiday crafts, letters to Santa, a VIP movie on the big screen, and even a special visit from the big man himself! It truly was a magical day to remember...

JDG hosted the first annual Big River Dance Festival in Huntington, WV! We were blessed to bring in over 50 artists from all over the East Coast, offer 2 live performances, a variety of master classes, several community workshops, and the first in the area Dance Film Festival. It was an electirc event full of collboration and energy...we are already planning the next one!

Jeslyn Performing Arts Center joins with American Ballet Theatre to offer Project Plie in our local Boys & Girl Clubs. Assistant Artistic Director, Summer O. Logan, and JPAC students are featured inside the Boys & Girls Club August of 2015. JPAC became an orginial member of this program when Jessica Lynn Fox and Summer O. Logan began their ABT certification program in 2012. Both instructors are honored to bring this Curriculum to the Huntington, WV tri-state area. JDGYB is extremely honored to be a community partner with Project Plie beginning in 2016 with the boys and girls club with an ongoing program option for the boys and girls club.

In collorboration with artists Summer O. Logan, Maggie Jackson & Robin Conley, I was commissoned to create a cross curricular modern dance performance incoorporating movement and children's literature. The show's theme, "Every Hero Has A Story" featured Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel, Do Super Heros Have Teddy Bears? by Carmela LaVigna Coyle, and Ten Rules of Being a SuperHero by Deb Pilutti. The final performance featured dance, narration, props, costumes, and an interactive section for kids!