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Jenna Jalonen

Jenna Jalonen

Project director

a.k.a triplejay after her graduation from the Hungarian Dance Academy in 2011, she already started to collaborate and work together with several international companies and choreographers such as Eva Duda Dance Co. (HU), Kubilai Khan Investigations (FR), Kwaad bloed/Ugo Dehaes (BE), fABULEUS (BE), Notch Company (BE), Thierry de Mey (BE), Theater Bremen (DE), Máté Mészáros (HU), Untamed Productions (PT) and HODWORKS (HU).

Together with Beatrix Simkó their production Long time no see! was part of the Festival d’Avignon Sujets á Vif program in 2018 and was selected amongst the Aerowaves Twenty19 productions. Her production BEAT ‘I just wish to feel you’ was also part of the Aerowaves selection of Twenty20 and won the Rudolf Lában Prize for the best contemporary dance performance of 2019. She is the co-founder and choreographer of Collective Dope which, besides developing choreographic work, organizes [D]OPEN YOUR MOVE mini-festival, a platform to support young contemporary and urban dancers. For some years she has been developing and teaching triplewave movement practice for professional dancers and movers. She is the project director of International Dance Week Budapest as well as co-founder, artistic director and choreographer of SUB.LAB.PRO The Ensemble Program.