Jenny Rintoul
Jenny has been involved in Pan-African and African Fusion Dance over the past ten years, having spent time dancing in Ghana and Togo in 2001, followed by training in various styles of West African Dance in the UK. She has been teaching and choreographing for a community dance and drum collective in Bristol since 2008, ‘African Sambistas’, fusing Pan-African and Samba dance forms and Body Percussion in her practice. More recently she has become interested in Guinean Dance, having trained with Hamana in Senegal in 2010.
Jenny delivers fusion dance workshops in primary and secondary schools, and provides workshops for school teachers on the development of dance within the curriculum. She has performed and taught at various festivals and recently worked on the television production SKINS, series four, as choreographer and dancer. As well as dance in practice, Jenny is interested in the theory of dance and has presented on gender and ethnicity in dance as part of Bristol Feminist Network lecture series in 2009.
