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Jennifer Harwell is the Artistic Director for Nashville In Motion, Nashville's first professional contemporary company. Jennifer is a Nashville native; her training beginning with Nashville Ballet. Dance training includes Boston Ballet, Indiana University Ballet Theater, Indianapolis Ballet, and Chautauqua Ballet. She has also attended many workshops by audition only with Gus Giordano, Frank Hatchett, Michael Owens, Desmond Richardson, and Dwight Rhoden. Principal roles include the ballets The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Who Cares?, Concerto Barocco and numerous original works by Jean- Pierre Bonnefoux, Patricia McBride, and Jacques Cesbron. Opera and Musical Theater credits include Faust, La Traviata, Oklahoma!, West Side Story, Cats, Chicago and Evita. As a choreographer, she won her first two awards this year for contemporary jazz solo and group pieces. Other choreography credits include ballet and jazz pieces for many studios including Nashville Ballet, Tennessee Governor's School of the Arts, Harpeth Hall, and Vanderbilt Dance Group.