Jennifer Meller, Director of Creative Development, is assisting the NYBDC with projects on the West Coast related to our work with the early music and dance communities.
Jen comes from a long family lineage of artists, directors, musicians and actors so her natural home is on and around the stage. She started ballet, art, and mime classes at an early age as well as piano and singing lessons with her father, a jazz pianist. As a teenager her favorite things were musical theater, progressive rock, and graphic design. Jen tried one year of art school before transferring to California Institute of the Arts where her focus was world music, music composition, and more than a dash of performance art and dance. After many years of writing and playing music Jen returned to ballet class and when she was introduced to Renaissance dance for a performance with the San Francisco Renaissance Voices she was hooked. Currently she is the director San Francisco Renaissance Dancers and teaches historical dance in the Bay Area and regularly at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley.
