Jordan Wanderer is a dancer and educator. She believes in the power of empathy and art’s ability to highlight human experiences through vulnerability and connection. A neuroscience enthusiast, her work is rooted in introspection and influenced by the sensory perceptions that constantly evolve to shape our embodied awareness.
Primarily trained in classical ballet then contemporary and modern forms, Wanderer holds Bachelors degrees in Dance and Cell and Molecular Biology from Mills College where she received the Outstanding Performer Award in 2017. Under the direction of Amber Lamprecht, she worked as an educational therapist offering multi-sensory, research-based literacy remediation at the former Literacy and Language Center of San Francisco. Wanderer remains an independent tutor for K-12 students in math, science, and literacy. A two-time participant in the LINES Ballet Summer Program, she is currently a ballet and contemporary teacher for Teens at LINES, a teaching artist for HeART with LINES, and the first LINES Community Programs Coordinator.
Wanderer has performed works by Kara Davis, Molissa Fenley, Garrett + Moulton Productions, Alayo Dance Company, Molly Matutat, Dexandro Montalvo, and Merce Cunningham (staged by Holley Farmer). She joined Robert Moses' Kin as a dancer in 2020 and is currently the Managing Director. She has also been a member of Cat Call Choir and helped found pateldanceworks in 2017 as a choreographic collaborator, dancer, and composer. Her work has been shown as part of Mark Foehringer's Young Choreographer's Forum, Max10 at Motion Pacific, and through the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program and in collaboration with Mary Carbonara for RAWDance's Concept Series 29.
Primarily trained in classical ballet then contemporary and modern forms, Wanderer holds Bachelors degrees in Dance and Cell and Molecular Biology from Mills College where she received the Outstanding Performer Award in 2017. Under the direction of Amber Lamprecht, she worked as an educational therapist offering multi-sensory, research-based literacy remediation at the former Literacy and Language Center of San Francisco. Wanderer remains an independent tutor for K-12 students in math, science, and literacy. A two-time participant in the LINES Ballet Summer Program, she is currently a ballet and contemporary teacher for Teens at LINES, a teaching artist for HeART with LINES, and the first LINES Community Programs Coordinator.
Wanderer has performed works by Kara Davis, Molissa Fenley, Garrett + Moulton Productions, Alayo Dance Company, Molly Matutat, Dexandro Montalvo, and Merce Cunningham (staged by Holley Farmer). She joined Robert Moses' Kin as a dancer in 2020 and is currently the Managing Director. She has also been a member of Cat Call Choir and helped found pateldanceworks in 2017 as a choreographic collaborator, dancer, and composer. Her work has been shown as part of Mark Foehringer's Young Choreographer's Forum, Max10 at Motion Pacific, and through the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program and in collaboration with Mary Carbonara for RAWDance's Concept Series 29.
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"There are situations of course that leave you utterly speechless. All you can do is hint at things. Words, too, can't do more than just evoke things. That's where dance comes in again."
-Pina Bausch