Jenny Durbin Smith

 

Jenny is one of Dallas’s most sought after and award-winning choreographers and her resume reads like a “who’s who” list in the dance industry! She has had extensive training in dance from some of the top choreographers and dance instructors in the country. She trained in jazz and hip hop during her college years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was also a member of the national award winning cheer and dance teams, while obtaining a double degree in journalism and communication studies. Jenny has a wide array of performance and choreography experience in addition to her success in the UNC college programs. She was a two-year member of the NBA Dallas Mavericks Dancers serving as Captain in her second year. Jenny has been a principle dancer and actor for many national industrials, commercials and films. She specializes in performance team training, jazz and hip hop. Jenny is currently the Director and Choreographer for the Dallas Cowboys Rhythm & Blue Dancers, a choreographer for the Dallas Cowboys organization, The Groovement Crew and travels the country choreographing for various teams and studios.

 

FACULTY EXPERIENCE

 

- Choreographer/Director of the Dallas Cowboys Rhythm & Blue Dancers  

- Choreographer/Director for the “Groovement Crew” hip hop team, award winning on the regional and national level

- Choreographer/Instructor, Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre, award winning on the national level 

- Choreographer/Instructor, The Centre for Dance performance company, award winning on the regional and national level

- Choreography for NBC’s “America’s Got Talent”

- Choreographer/Director of the Dallas perados Dancers, “The most exciting dance team in all of professional sports!”

- Choreographer for the Arena Football League, ArenaBowl XXI, XXII and the Aaron’s AFL Dream Team

- Choreographer for the Dallas Desperados Young Guns -Choreographer/Dancer for Tuaca’s Evolution national tour

- C&C Productions, Executive Choreographer 

- 2007 & 2008 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Thanksgiving Halftime shows featuring Kelly Clarkson and the Jonas Brothers, choreography

- Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and DCC Show group, choreography 

- MTV’s “TRL” featuring Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, choreography 

- CMT’s “Making The Team” starring The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, choreography

- Monday Night Football Commercial featuring DCC, choreography 

- Mary Kay (x6), choreography

- Chuck E. Cheese (x4), choreographer and principal

- Spiderman commercial, Choreographer

- Twister’s High School Musical 2 Commercial, Choreographer

- WalMart Industrial, Choreographer

- Sam’s Club, Choreographer

- Sugarhill Gang, The Beach Boys, The Commodores, Rascal Flatts  

- NBA Dallas Mavericks Dancers, Captain

- Live with Regis and Kelly

- Hasbro’s DreamLife Superstar National Commercial, Principal 

- Doritos, principal dancer

- Arby’s, principal dancer

- Harrah’s Casino VEX commercial

- Dave & Buster’s National commercial

- WFAA Dale Hansen commercial, Choreographer and Principal

- Maxim - Red Bull

- Nascar, Principal

- The Movie Channel 

- Chevrolet

- Chuppa Chups Lollipops

- Target, JC Penney’s, WalMart, Pepsi and Dillards, choreography

- Betsey Johnson

- Toni & Guy

- Farouk Hair Systems, CHI

- Beauticontrol

- Sony Music’s Chicago as Roxie, Viva Las Vegas, Studio 54 and Moulin Rouge

- Neiman Marcus Cattlebaron’s Ball/Dallas and Lubbock, TX