Jenna Berlyn is a freelance contemporary dance artist based in Berlin since 2022, originally from Canada. In 2019, she graduated from four year pre-professional program Modus Operandi in Vancouver, with her final year on scholarship from the British Columbia Arts Council. Immediately she began freelancing as a dancer and creating her own works and dance films, for which she received multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. She also briefly studied Visual Arts at the University of British Columbia, also on scholarship.

Her practice focuses on contemporary dance, floorwork, and improvisation, grounded in a background in ballet, contact dance, and visual arts. Recently she has incorporated theatricality, nudity, experimental vocals and text work into her practice. She draws inspiration from dream logic, poetry, intimacy, and the blurred edges of reality to shape her choreography and performance. Through dance, she explores what it means to be human, embodied, and connected in a world that is both overwhelming and tender. Jenna also often choreographs for and performs in night clubs in Berlin.

Jenna is co-founder of the collective SLEX ART, which develops interdisciplinary performances, installations, and media with the body at the centre of their works. She has taught professional and open level contemporary dance and floorwork classes in Berlin, Vancouver, and Riga.