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GLENN LESLIE is originally from West Boylston, Massachusetts, and joined JRJP in the fall of 1998.
He has taught the Jump Rhythm Technique at Northwestern University, Old Town School of Folk Music, and has had the privilege of representing JRJP at intensives, workshops, residencies, and master classes around the country. Glenn set his original tap choreography Out of a Rut & Into a Groove on the apprentice company of Tappers with Attitude in 2004/2006 and for Northwestern University’s Danceworks in 2006. In 2005 Glenn created and premiered his solo dance – G. K. Lovejoy, an homage to Gene Kelly, and in 2006 created and premiered Low Autumn Stroll. He has also served as choreographer for such shows as Anything Goes, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, and Fiorello!. Glenn is on the faculty of Dance Center Evanston, and has appeared in productions with Evanston Dance Ensemble. Theatre performances include tours of Europe with Rhythm, Oklahoma!, and West Side Story, and U.S. productions of Singin' in the Rain, Forty-Second Street, Dames at Sea, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Guys and Dolls, among many others. Glenn is very proud to share the 2006-2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement for Individual Excellence On Camera/Performer with the rest of JRJP for their work in the multiple-Emmy-Award-winning documentary Jump Rhythm Jazz Project: Getting There, produced by HMS Media for public television.