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JSLA Alumni

Founded Summer 2022, JUMPSTART/LA now has a community of 100+ students living, working, and thriving within our dance ecosystem. Movement artists of all backgrounds have come from as far as New York, Michigan, and Florida — and many from our Southern California home.

We are
very proud of our attendees and all they have accomplished since joining us at JSLA!

Check out what some of our alumni are up to...

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  • ​Catalina Jackson-Urueña launched her own non-profit Stadium Feedback with co-partner Dylan Freeman and joined Invertigo Dance Theatre as the Program Manager of their Dancing Through Parkinsons’ program.
     

  • Hope Spears is performing and touring with LA Dance Project and danced for Toogie Barcelo (JSLA Faculty!) in UPSAHL’s ‘Into My Body’ video.
     

  • Kloii Hummingbird performed with CONTRA-TIEMPO (JSLA Faculty!) in ¡azúcar! at The Ford, was selected as a 2023 Dance Fellow at Carmel Dance Festival, and choreographed / performed her first solo at The Novo with Cirque Berzerk.
     

  • Leah Zeiger was commissioned as part of the City of LA’s Department of Cultural Affairs' inaugural EMPOWERMENT Initiative. In Spring 2024, she launched The Sunflower Project, a new non-profit that utilizes art as healing and community building for young survivors of abusive relationships. She is also presenting You Live In My Spine at the 2024 Odyssey Summer Dance Festival, as well as a new work titled HYSTERIA at Highways Performance Space in August 2024.  

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