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writer / interdisciplinary performance artist / poet / dance practitioner
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Jenny is an emerging writer from South Australia whose work has appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing 2011, 2012, 2013. Her collaborative verse novel: Shedding Sin, was released in May 2013. In 2014 she was awarded the Cowley Literary Award for her short story: ‘Can’t say no to a dying man’.

CHECK OUT "SOME CALL IT ABUSE" A NEW BOOK OF POETRY FROM JENNY TOUNE DEBUTING AT THE NEW YORK CITY POETRY FESTIVAL JULY 30,31st 2016! 

Some Call it Abuse - Jenny Toune - UB2016
Some Call It Abuse - Jenny Toune UB2016

Her Story 

As a performance poet she has among other things been featured at Melbourne’s Overload Poetry Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival and won the SA State Library Poetry Slam 2012. Her one woman shows play with relationships between words, movement and rhythm tap, and she has worked extensively in the genres of classical, contemporary and tap dance, narrative and improvisation.
Jenny takes on many roles including arts production, choreographer, workshop presenter, MC, dance educator, performer, and reviewer. She was a founding committee member of the TAFE / Adelaide College of the Arts’ Spoke Word Festival, and production assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,
A professional dancer and dance educator for twenty years, Jenny is fascinated with the language of rhythm and movement. From 1998 – 2009 she was co-director of an Adelaide based performing arts school: Beat Company Performing Arts. She also drums in Adelaide band Alien Whore.

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