Kendra Borden

Dance Resume

Photo by Gretchen Lemay, 2024

Photo by Gretchen Lemay, 2024

Kendra Borden


Pronouns: she/her/hers

Height: 172cm

Body type: athletic

Nationality: USA

Languages Spoken: English (fluent), French & Portuguese (intermediate)

Email: kborden1427@gmail.com

Instagram: @kenny.jane

Click here to download pdf of dance resume.

Performance Experience

By & Bye: An Unsustainable Art Show
Boise, ID
  • Bad Faith, by Daniel Ojeda
  • Viewers Like You, by Daniel Ojeda

All in a Row
New York City, NY
  • All in a Row, by Audrey Allen

giras de anhelo, saudade
2023-2024
New York City, NY
  • Passeios com Saudades, debut Nov 2023, by Kar’mel Antonyo Wade Small

Gibney Pro
September 2022-December 2022
  • Directors: Alexandra Wells, Bret Yamanaka, Gilbert T Smalls II
  • Once Upon a Time, Elia Mrak
  • Bliss This, Laja Field
  • Save our...Something (a work in constant process), by Rena Butler and Maleek Washington
  • finding the edge. Original choreography premiered Dec 2022. 

Lauren Edson and Dancers (LED)
2017-2020
  • Over the Moon by Lauren Edson, Summer 2023
  • Treefort Music Festival, 2020

Barnard Dance
August 2018- May 2022
  • As the thoughts arise. Original solo by Tamisha A Guy. March 2022.
  • Miller Theater. toGETher by Christopher Rudd. Nov. 2021, The Faded Nature of Things by Yin Yue. 2019
  • New York Live Arts. BYOBBQ by Wesley Ensminger. 2022, Fog by David Dorfman, Ladylike by Amy Hall Garner. 2018

Columbia Ballet Collaborative
August 2020- May 2022
  • Duo Project Developer. Spring 2022
  • Choreography Mentorship Project Mentee. Spring 2021
  • Original work by Norbert DeLaCruz. 2020
  • I See You. Earl Mosley, Fall 2019
  • Dancer, Assistant Artistic Director, & Development Director

Project Flux Dance
2017-Present
  • sentences. Project Flux. 2018
  • Flux Fest. Delayed debut summer 2022.

*cancelled due to COVID-19

Choreography & Projects

Choreography
  • finding the edge. Gibney Pro, Moving Forward Dance, Arts on Site. 2022-2024
  • soda beer coffee fish flowers. Choreography Mentorship Program. Columbia Ballet Collaborative. 2021
  • Colab dance collective. Echoes of. 2019

Projects 
  • Venmo Spring Break Campaign, Model. 2023
  • BK Studio Collaboration, Dancer. 2021-2022
  • Dancer series with Ritchie Jo, Model. 2022
  • Steps on Broadway Workshop Series, Assistant to Tamisha Guy. 2021
  • Atomic Flow. Columbia Masters Music Composition Collaboration. 2021
  • Virtual film projects. Brice Moussett. 2020

Additional experience

Founder & Service Roles
  • Be Home for Dinner! a cookout series uniting members of the F&B and artsindustries around an evening of financially accessible, seasonally curatedfood, design and art - Co-Founder, Creative Director, Culinary Producer, & more.
  • Additional pop-up experience with Aerthship, Feisal Lagos, Luisa NYC, Pierce Abernathy, Spiltmilk Collective, We Are ONA, and more.

Please see ‘Beyond Dance’ or email me to learn more

Education

Gibney Pro Inaugural Cohort
 Sept-May 2022
  • Alexandra Wells, Bret Yamanaka,Gilbert T Smalls II with guest choreographers
  • Coursework includes Gaga,Countertechnique, Flying Low,Dynamic Sequencing, and more

Columbia University
BA Dance, Environmental Biology
August 2018-May 2022
  • Coursework includes: Composition, Improvisation, World Dance History, ballet and modern techniques. 3.86 gpa.
  • Studied with faculty including: Ashley Tuttle, Caroline Fermin, Jodi Melnick, Tamisha Guy, Wesley Ensminger, Yin Yue, and Yoshito Sakuraba.
  • Dance thesis: Tapping In, Staying In: Understanding Vulnerability as a Tool to Facilitate Connection Through Dance, adviser Seth Williams.
  • Environmental Biology thesis: Spatiotemporal Distributions of Nutrients in the Hudson River, mentor Dr. Andrew Juhl.

Workshops & Intensives

Morefish Dance
New York City, NY. 2023
Doron Perk and guests

Springboard X
New York City, NY. 2023
Evangelos Poulinas, Victor Rottier, & Johannes Wieland

Orsolina 28. 
Mocalvo AT, Italy. 2022
Repertory by Jiri Kylian, Marco Goecke, and Crystal Pite.

Sidra Bell MODULE.
New York, NY. 2022

TL Collective Virtual Intensive. 
Los Angeles, CA. 2020

Hubbard Street Dance PreProfessional Repertory Intensive.
Chicago, IL. 2019. 
Restaged excerpts of repertory by Ohad Naharin,  Crystal Pite, and Nacho Duato.

Yin Yue Winter Workshop
New York City, NY. 2018

The Experience: Boise with Ching Ching Wong
Boise, ID. 2017

Northwest Dance Project Summer Intensive
Portland, OR. 2015, 2017
Restaged excerpts of repertory including Drifting Thoughts by Patrick Delcroix and Conjugations by Wen Wei Wang.
 

Awards & Skills

Certifications:
  • Barista Certified
  • Wilderness First Aid, CPR
  • Adaptive Leadership Certified
  • American Barre Technique Certified
  • NYC Food Handlers Certified

Awards:
  • Ready Foundation Fellow, 2022
  • Alexa Rose Grant Awardee, 2017 & 2022

Skills:
  • Event Production
  • Business Development
  • Organizational Management
  • Copywriting and Social Media
  • Grant writing
  • Research and technical writing
  • Microsoft Excel, QGIS
  • Experienced volleyball player