Jennie Scholick

Arts Administrator & editor

Jennie Scholick, PhD is the Director of Education & Training at San Francisco Ballet. In this role, she creates and curates the organization’s public programming, adult education, and audience development initiatives. In 2018, she organized Boundless: A Symposium on Ballet’s Future as part of SF Ballet’s Unbound festival.

Jennie received her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles and holds a B.A from Princeton University. Her dissertation examined the relationships between dance, text, and politics in works created by poets and choreographers associated with the New York City Ballet during the height of the Cold War (1948-1964). Jennie was selected as a 2015 Mellon Dance Studies Seminar participant at Northwestern University and for the 2015-2016 Collegium of University Teaching Fellows at UCLA.  Her work has been supported by a New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship, a UCLA Del Amo Fellowship, the UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship and Summer Research Mentorship Programs, and a UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship.

Her research and writing have appeared in Dance Chronicle, The Poetry Foundation, and The Jerome Robbins Foundation Newsletter and she has a chapter in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet. She has presented at the Dance Studies Association (formerly the Congress on Research in Dance), the National Dance Education Organization, the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, the Popular Culture/American Culture Association, the Mellon Dance Studies Summer Seminar, and OPERA/America, among others. In addition, she has presented about her work in the public humanities at the Stanford PhD Pathways Conference, at UCLA’s Scholars@Work seminar, and at the Dance Studies Association.

Editing and Writing

I work with a variety of companies, students, and professionals to create engaging written content that is clear, concise, and persuasive, while maintaining unique voices and perspectives. My clients range from professional school applicants to graduate students to highly-valued startups. Articles edited have appeared in publications ranging from TechCrunch to Dance Research Journal. My clients have received jobs or admittance at institutions including Stanford GSB, Google, and National Taiwan University.

Teaching

Jennie has taught a variety of classes, texts, and ballets at the university level, at San Francisco Ballet School, and for adult learners at both San Francisco Ballet and through the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA.