Jenny Bopp

Jenny Bopp received a B.A. in Political Science from Hillsdale College in 2008, and in 2014 she graduated with an M.A. in Urban Studies and Community Arts from Eastern University where she focused on trauma-informed, arts-based practices for effecting positive change in communities both locally and globally. Jenny has been working and teaching at Westtown School in Pennsylvania since 2012 as the school’s Dance Program Coordinator. Prior to Westtown, Jenny taught ballet and modern dance techniques in various studios, and she has recently opened her own dance studio in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Jenny performed and choreographed for four years with the Hillsdale Tower Dancers dance company, and has performed as a guest artist with Go! Contemporary Dance Works and with Circle Modern Dance in Knoxville, Tennessee. In addition to teaching dance, Jenny has worked as a teaching artist at a local drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility, and she serves as a leader for the dance ministry program at her church.

Publications

Healing Through the Arts for Non-Clinical Practitioners
Jenny Bopp, Amy M. Grebe, Joanna Hope Denny. © 2019. 309 pages.
Time and time again the arts have been called on to provide respite and relief from fear, anxiety, and pain in clinical medicinal practices. As such, it is vital to explore how...
Storytelling Through Dance and Movement
Jenny Bopp. © 2019. 32 pages.
Everyone has a story to tell, but because of trauma, not everyone can use words to tell it. The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate an arts-based, trauma-informed...