Selby Jenkins (1998) is a professionally-trained dancer, choreographer, and maker from the unceded territory of the Shoshone, Bannock, and Northern Paiute peoples (Boise, Idaho). She has been dancing since she was 4 years old, dancing professionally since she was 16, and graduated with a Professional Bachelors in Dance at the age of 24 (2022).

Selby is currently based in Brussels, Belgium.

biography

Selby gained her foundational dance training in Idaho, later kickstarting her professional career through local and national dance companies such as: Idaho Dance Theater, LED, Project Flux, and WHYTEBERG. With these companies, Selby has performed at Treefort Music Festival, MING Studios, Boise Dance Co-op, and throughout the state of Idaho.

From 2017-2018, Selby studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance under the direction of Summer Lee Rhatigan, and simultaneously apprenticed and performed for the Margaret Jenkins (no-relation) Dance Company for their site-specific work Toward 45.

She continued her dance studies in Brussels, Belgium at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) under the direction of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, achieving a Professional Bachelor’s in Dance in 2022, to which she also carries the title of Bachelors of Art.

Since graduation, Selby has been a core member of the artistic collective and non-profit organization leprojetgéo asblvzw in Brussels, and a dance teacher for adult amateurs through the STU Arts Dance program.

In November 2023, Selby performed at Theater Young in Shanghai, China as part of an international cast of performers in the work random goodbyes by Moya Michael and David Hernandez, in collaboration with Jin Xing Dance Theatre. This production was also performed in the Royal Flemish Theater (KVS) in Brussels, Belgium in February 2024.

From October 2023 until August 2025, Selby was a researcher in an Erasmus+ research group called “Diversity in European Higher Dance Education” (DDE), investigating practices and systems of diversity in higher dance education in Europe.

She continues to persist in her career as a maker and performer by being a creative assistant and dramaturg for music-performance-circus act Gelli Haha, working in multidisciplinary performance projects throughout Belgium, and forging her own performance research entitled Princess Highway / State Fair.

All photos above by: Stephen Rusk


random goodbyes (2023).

esto perpetua (2024) - Princess Highway / State Fair.

Crude Saturday (2024). Photo by Arnaud Beelen.

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