Jessica Wolf

Performing Art – Orange County

Jessica Wolf holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance from Chapman University. She is a diversely trained dancer in Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Hip Hop, Modern and Tap dance styles. In her early professional dance Career she was an opening cast dancer for Disneyland’s “Parade of Dreams” and also was a dancer in the “A Christmas Fantasy” Parade. She spent six weeks at Duke University attending the American Dance Festival, an acclaimed modern dance technique training program, where she was able to study the works of Martha Graham and train with Laura Dean, Larry Keigwin, David Dorfman, Pilobolus and many other legends of modern dance. Commercially She has danced for Beyonce, LMFAO and Steve Augeri (Journey) to name a few. She has also performed as a company member with the professional dance company “Unity Dance Ensemble” Under the Direction of Tessandra Chavez and Theo Ivey. She has performed in Carnival and Club Jete in Los Angeles, two highly acclaimed revue La dance shows under the direction of Elm Pizarro, Tiffany Billings, Cameron Graham and Maryann Chavez. She has been a highlighted choreographer in the Orange County Revue Show “Loose Cannons” Presenting many different works of choreography ranging in different styles of dance. She is most known for her unique way of creating a fusion of contemporary modern dance, ballet, tap and hip hop into a blended style. She is known for being an artful storyteller through her movement and stage set up and the way she creates images with bodies on stage. She currently is the Artistic Director of AVANTI Dance Company, a Competitive training dance studio geared towards children, although she does train adults there as well. Jessica has choreographed numerous award winning dances and achieved many high level awards at local and national competitions including the esteemed Youth American Grand Prix. She is also the Executive director of “The Concrete Dance Initiative”. A professional concept based Dance Company that creates concept videos along with producing live shows. To tell stories and create movement that can change the viewers perspective is the overall goal of the company. Jessica is always striving to improve her own abilities as a dancer, teacher, choreographer, visionary, artist and mover. She inspires anyone who works with her to push themselves to realize their full potential and remind them they are capable of much more than they ever imagined all they have to do is "step over the line". She always hopes that anyone viewing her work will walk away feeling as though they have had a piece of them be spoken to and be able to connect with the message drawn out behind her work.