Artist-in-Residence: DJinza Thayer
Rosy Simas Danse welcomes Deborah Jinza Thayer and collaborators to three thirty-one space artist-in-residence program May 13-May 26, 2024. Join us during Art-A-Whirl Saturday, May 18th, 2024 4-6pm for a showing of “From Tokyo to Brooklyn”.
After spending the first six years in Japan, DJinza Thayer grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received an MFA in Dance at George Mason University. Based in the Twin Cities, she presents her work as Movement Architecture (MA). As MA, Jinza has created over sixty original works and has been a two-time semi-finalist for France’s Rencontres choregraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Bagnolet) in 1999 and 2001. Jinza has received two McKnight Artist Fellowship for Choreographers (2004, 2019), the SAGE Award for Choreographic Concept and Design (2010), and numerous grants from Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and American Composer’s Forum, among others.
Jinza has taught generations of emerging choreographers and dancers during twenty-five years at Zenon Dance Company and School in Minneapolis and as a guest instructor for various universities.
Photo Credit: Paul V. Virtuccio