SOMATIC CAMP: JENNIFER MASCALL

Jennifer Mascall will be teaching at SOMATIC CAMP 2026, February 2-7.

Jennifer Mascall ((she/her/hers/they/them/ theirs) is a Canadian choreographer, teacher, improviser, mentor, and advocate for the art form. A first-generation settler of Norman/Celt descent, she is a ceaseless investigator and an unquenchable source of ideas.

Mascall and her over 200 works have received many awards and continue to challenge dancers and audiences. Her approach is informed by studies with two American master teachers Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Linda Putnam. As a committed dance innovator, practitioner, educator, mentor, and advocate, she encourages new generations of artists through collaboration, creation, choreographic residencies, intensives, and dialogue.

Excerpted from conversation about Somatic Camp:

“The class we’ll be working on will be putting together information that I understand from two of my most influential teachers, Linda Putnam and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. The work I’ve learned from Bonnie takes you into the physical systems of the body. Linda Putnam’s work takes you from the inside world out into how you express yourself and who you are - from the inside into that expression. “

“The time we spend is a research lab made by particular people on the particular day that the come. We begin and end with a circle. We look into some part of the body, and research it however we can. We go inside, and then try and navigate how to go outside. And we take into space, and see how that part of the anatomy actually changes your dancing, perhaps bringing a quality of your dancing that you haven’t seen or felt - or noticed - before.”

“What people would learn in the six classes like this is that, anything they need to answer in themselves could be found within themselves.”

Image created by choreographer Sarah Chase and used by permission of the artist.