Selby Jenkins (1998) is a dancer, choreographer, and performing artist based in Idaho and Belgium. She gained her foundational dance training in Boise, Idaho where she was born and raised, later kickstarting her professional career through local and national dance companies such as: Idaho Dance Theater, LED, Project Flux, and WHYTEBERG. Through 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 anniversarial site-specific work Toward 45.

She continued her dance studies in Brussels, Belgium at the Performance Art and Research 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 the conclusion of her studies in 2022, Selby has been a member of the artist collective and non-profit organization leprojetgéo asblvzw based in Brussels, Belgium.

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.

In the interim, Selby continues forging her own work and collaborating with other artists on new projects, such as: Princess Highway / State Fair and “The Administrative Hotel”, hosted by leprojetgéo asblvzw.