Jenai Cutcher

Jenai Cutcher is a tap dancer and the Assistant Curator in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the NYPL Library for the Performing Arts. Her creative practice includes dancing, choreographing, teaching, writing, documenting, and researching histories of dance to present in a variety of media.

She has worked with Brenda Bufalino, Lynn Dally, Michelle Dorrance, Barbara Duffy, Katherine Kramer, Max Pollak, Lynn Schwab, and Tony Waag, among others.

Her documentary, Thinking On Their Feet: Women of the Tap Renaissance, explores the work of women who resurrected and revolutionized the art of American tap dance and continue to pioneer the field. She has a BA in English and MFA in Dance, both from The Ohio State University.