About me
Jenai Cutcher is a tap dancer and the Assistant Curator in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the NYPL Library for the Performing Arts. Her creative practice includes dancing, choreographing, teaching, writing, videography, archiving, curating, and researching histories of dance to present in a variety of media. Cutcher has written articles for publications including Dance magazine and The Village Voice, three dance books for children, and Columbus Moves: A Brief History of Contemporary Dance. Her documentary, Thinking On Their Feet: Women of the Tap Renaissance, explores the work of women who resurrected and revolutionized the art of American tap dance and continue to pioneer the field. Cutcher was the founding Executive and Artistic Director of Chicago Dance History Project, a digital archive of original and collected research. She has a BA in English and MFA in Dance, both from The Ohio State University.
