OIP Dance Centre Toronto | Teachers Mark Samuels | Hip Hop - Break Dancing - Reggae - Salsa - Jazz - Tap - Yoga Dance

JEN MOTE

Jen Mote began her performance career over twenty years ago at Sault Gymnastics Club in Sault Ste. Marie. In conjunction with competitive gymnastics and acro, she trained in tap, jazz and lyrical at S.W.A.D.A, and quickly rose to the top as a gifted dancer. Her formal training began in 1994 when she studied ballet at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, and Toronto's National Ballet School. In 1999, Jen began to study across North America, namely Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Tremaine Dance Convention in Detroit. She began to teach and choreograph competitively for Sherry Walsh Dance Academy and Sault Gymnastics Club, and began to build her professional resume. Jen began to work with provincial level figure skaters, and choreographed for Suzy Shier, China Doll and Le Chateau. She was a featured dancer for Art Gabriel, L'image Model Search, "Reppies"- a children's video, and the opening ceremonies for the Ontario Winter Games.

In 2002, Jen moved to Toronto to further pursue her professional career, and broadened her training repetoire to modern, hip-hop, adage, aerial, acting, and vocal training. She became an assistant to faculty member Richard Kim for Triple Threat Dance Convention, and began teaching at Vlad's Dance Academy in Richmond Hill. She has since performed for thousands on the Toronto Raptors Dance Pak, can be seen on a promotional video for Superbowl XXXVII, and in industrials for Remax, Bell Mobility, Maxim Magazine, and MAC Cosmetics. She has toured internationally as the dance captain for Celebrity Cruiselines, and performed on "The Toronto Show", The W Network's "Between The Sheets", the up-coming movie "Barstool Words", Stardust Follies, and as a magician's assistant for the "Magic of Rossini". Currently, Jen is a member of Toronto-based jazz company Helix Productions, choreographed by Linda Garneau, and has appeared in the live productions of "Every Now and Then" and "Westside Stories".

Jen is certified from the B.A.T.D. to teach tap, jazz and ballet. She will be teaching her rhythmic and unique style of jazz at OIP Dance's Summer Intensive.