Collage Dance Collective 

Victoria Jaenson, Company & Teaching Artist

I am a performing member with the College Dance Collective Company. There are 18 of us this season. We tour a lot; we perform a lot. 

Walking into a building and space like Collage Dance Collective is a completely different feeling where you see yourself represented in the artwork, in the students, in the staff and the other company members. Aside from the politics, aside from the issues around diversity, when you have really true authentic connections and artists around you in this space and your performing with them, it can endure a lot. As long as we are uplifting each other, carrying each other, holding each other accountable and doing our best work.

Being able to be a teacher for the students in this organization, so that they can see representation in the professional dance world is something I’m so honored and grateful to be a part of. It truly makes a lot, you learn from students showing I can do both, that you can be a teacher, and you can be an artist and performer and that all those things can exist.

Victoria Jaenson

Collage Dance Collective is working to inspire the growth and diversity of ballet.