Jody Sperling

[1] Sperling and the company’s work also aims to investigate the relationship of the moving body to the ecologies we inhabit through performance, media, education, and activism.

She has created more than 50 works and has performed and taught in the US, Bahrain, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, Scotland and north of the Arctic Circle, in addition to an upcoming tour to Egypt for the 2025 Hakawy Festival.

Currently, Sperling is developing a dance practice called ecokinetics that cultivates the relationship between the moving body and environmental systems while providing strategies for climate-engaged artmaking.

Sperling earned a World Choreography Award nomination for her work as the choreographer, creative consultant, and dance coach on the French feature film La Danseuse (The Dancer) (Dir.

For the November 2024 Paul Taylor Dance Company Lincoln Center Season, Sperling was commissioned to set her solo, Clair de Lune, and expand upon material originally created for the French feature film La Danseuse (The Dancer) with the Loïe character performing atop a box containing lights within.