FSU Dance - Jennifer Calienes, Director of MANCC, Named to 2007 Top Women in Business

Jennifer Calienes, Director of MANCC, Named to 2007 Top Women in Business

Jennifer Calienes, Director of the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), has been named to the 2007 Top Women in Business. Calienes is one of 26 women featured by the Tallahassee Democrat during March, which is also Women’s History Month. The women were selected from nominations by readers and a final list created by a jury of women business leaders.

As the Director of MANCC, Calienes’ position provides the leadership and vision for the first choreographic center in the United States. From 1999-2004 she managed the National Dance Project (NDP), a program of the New England Foundation for the Arts which supports the production and distribution of dance in the United States. While at NEFA, she assisted in raising over $12 million for the program, and facilitated international partnerships with France, Netherlands, Australia and Japan. She has served on grant panels for the Colorado Council on the Arts, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the State of Florida and Dance Advance, a program of the Pew Charitable Trusts and the University of the Arts. She holds a B.S. in Arts Administration with a Dance Concentration from Butler University.

The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC, pronounced man-see), is a dance and choreographic research center, housed in the Department of Dance’s renovated facilities in Montgomery Hall. MANCC seeks to compliment the activities of the Department of Dance by strengthening and enhancing interaction between dance practitioners operating within and outside of an academic setting.