
Mission
1ST MOVE DANCE is dedicated to defining the future of dance performance by setting a new standard for professional equity, bridging the gap between high-level innovation and human-centered community. We are providing a home where diverse voices redefine the stage with genre-bending performances and a commitment to radical creativity. Our artists create work that is as impactful as it is unapologetically cool.
The Company
1ST MOVE DANCE is a project-based dance company with its home base in New York City, founded on the principles of community, equity, and bold artistic exploration. We offer accessible, high-quality performances created to engage, educate, and entertain students and the public, as well as workshops and educational programming. Interested in learning more? Ready to book?


Meet the Founder.
JENNA EBERHARDT is a New York-based dancer, choreographer, and dance educator with a strong sense of justice and an irrevocable instinct to be the change she wants to see in the world. Jenna received a colorful and diverse dance education throughout her youth, which included classical ballet, competitive dance, musical theatre, and contemporary concert dance. Following graduation from the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Jenna earned her BFA in Dance at Montclair State University, where she performed works by Martha Graham, Bill T. Jones, and Alwin Nikolais, and other celebrated choreographers, before moving to New York to pursue her artistic career. Throughout her initial few years in the field, Jenna performed in and choreographed for a variety of projects that were as diverse as her training background-- a new musical that takes place in hell (The Flea, NYC), a Theatre for Young Audiences company with contemporary dance at its core (92NY Musical Theatre), a gory horror ballet (The Governess), a beloved 9/11 Tribute (Lincoln Center), and many regional theatre productions both big and small. Alongside building her performance and choreography career, Jenna developed a passion for dance education and sharing her ever-evolving philosophies with a host of students whom she has grown to love cheering on as much as she loves dance itself. While reflecting on both positive and challenging experiences as a dancer, Jenna felt undeniably called to create a home for dance artists to thrive within a company that is centered around community, equity, and, of course, the pursuit of impactful dance performance.
