Jamey Garner is a Texan from the North Carolina mountains. After graduating from Gustavus Adolphus College, she lived in Arizona while studying improvisation in Tucson, Amherst, MA, New York and Linz, Austria. She moved to Minneapolis in 1999 and co-founded Three Dances with Brinsley and Suzanne a year later.
Jamey’s formal dance training began with ballet, studying the Vaganova method. At Gustavus she discovered modern dance and contact improvisation, which led to studying postmodern dance and other movement modalities after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
While in Minneapolis, she has had the pleasure of dancing for Hijack, April Sellers and Deborah Jinza Thayer. She has also enjoyed performing for The Body Cartography Project and Laurie Van Wieren. Wooing Baryshnikov with flowers across the Pantages Theatre in Eliot Feld’s Mr XYZ remains a high point in her dancing memories.