Jill is a modern dance choreographer, teacher and performer whose career since 1989 has spanned Boston, North Carolina, New York City, and Maine. While living In Maine since 2001, Jill continues to present her own solo work and also created extensive duet work with Carol Dilley (Director of Dance at Bates College) from 2004-2009. While their work was shown abundantly throughout Maine, they were also presented at the Bates Dance Festival, Dance New Amsterdam in NYC, and by The Dance Gallery at the Ailey Citigroup Theater in NYC. While in Portland, Jill has also collaborated with Ron Botting (NYC, and Portland Stage Company actor/dancer) and Christien Polos (Boston dancer/choreographer). Jill has practiced contact improvisation with Carl Rudman and has performed works by Sarah McCormick and Sara Smith, both former NYC choreographers. Jill was the founder and artistic director of Jill Eng/Forward and Up Dance Company from 2005-2007, and since 2001 has created dance works for many other Maine artists including Karen Montanaro, Maria Tzianabos, and the Thornton Academy Dance Company.
Prior to her career in Maine, Jill danced for numerous choreographers along the east coast, most notably Clay Taliaferro of the Jose Limon Company. She has initiated the production of a number of dance concerts throughout NC, NYC and Maine, and in 1996 founded a dance collective in NC called Independent Dancemakers. While living in NYC from 1996-2001, Jill performed her work and others' at Judson Church, The Limon Studio, University Settlement, Purchase College, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Movement Research, 550 Broadway and the Field.
If you are interested in hiring Jill for performance or choreography, please contact her at: spiewakeng@yahoo.com
207-773-2131
you can view jill eng and carol dilley at youtube site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jeDH9yXHJs/
You may also request video footage of performances, or a copy of her appearance on Dance Today in Maine, on the Maine Public Access Channel through Great Falls TV in 2007.
For an online review of Eng's work with Dilley go to: http://www.dancespirit.com/blogs/1733/
Other reviews include:
The Bar Harbor Times, Nan Lincoln, May 17, 2001 "Jill Eng performed a solo that was a marvel of athleticism and liquidity. It almost seemed as if she had strings attached or had managed to bend the laws of gravity for a moment the way she could dive to the floor and then rise again in one seamless movement."
The Portland Press Herald, Steve Feeney, Sept. 13, 2004 "Jill Spiewak Eng danced in two of the best works of the evening. 'Untold,' choreographed by (Christien) Polos...this work had the balance and compositional clarity that raises the art of dance to a higher level. Eng got a deserved ovation for an exceptional bit of work."