Jessica Sgambelluri is a graduate of Marymount
Manhattan College, where
she received her BFA in Dance in 2014. During her
time
there she was selected
to study privately with Ballet Maestro Hector
Zaraspe and
also to perform in
the Yang Liping International Dance Festival in
Kunming,
China. Upon
graduating, Jessica joined the Graham 2 company.
There,
she was the 2015
recipient of the Pearl Lang Award and performed
soloist
roles in the company.
In 2016 she performed on PBS’s “TED Talks Live” and
in
Michael Klïen's
"Excavation Site: Martha Graham USA". Since then,
she
has
worked with SLC's Odyssey Dance
Theater, 360 Dance,
and currently dances with Caterina Rago Dance
Company,
Buglisi Dance
Theatre and is a soloist with Ari Mayzick's ARIM
Dance.
Jessica works as a
rehearsal assistant during Buglisi Dance Theatre's
residencies
at University of
California Santa Barbara, Yale, and the annual
"Table of
Silence". Jessica is also
a part-time faculty member at The Martha Graham
School
of
Contemporary
Dance and a pilates instructor at Groundfloor
Exercise.