Jennifer Perfilio Movement Works

Jennifer Perfilio Movement Works With attention to form and process, Jennifer Perfilio | Movement Works creates dance that affirms th

03/23/2026

Reminder this week “Practice Makes Imperfect” meets on Friday, 3/27

Joe Goode Annex, 401 Alabama St, SF

Remaining March dates:
Friday, March 27th
Monday, March 30th

All classes 10-12pm

Through a primarily somatic lens, we will move through actions, efforts, and improvisational tasks; cultivating embodied awareness around that which is already present, in order to potentiate that which we don’t already know. Practice Makes Imperfect invites us to show up in our bodies, as they are; and with a rigor, curiosity, and delight towards dance practice as expansive, ongoing, uniquely unfamiliar, and perfectly imperfect.

Sliding Scale $15-$20/class.
NOTAFLOF

Register by clicking link in bio. Drop-in or pay at the door is also welcome.

Above photo captures dance artists and moving through a listening score during a past JPMW rehearsal.

Practice Makes Imperfect continues through March. ✨Check out remaining dates and deets below. Tuesdays, March 10th and 1...
03/07/2026

Practice Makes Imperfect continues through March. ✨

Check out remaining dates and deets below.

Tuesdays, March 10th and 17th
Friday, March 27th
Monday, March 30th

All classes 10-12pm
Joe Goode Annex, 401 Alabama St, SF

Through a primarily somatic lens, we will move through actions, efforts, and improvisational tasks; cultivating embodied awareness around that which is already present, in order to potentiate that which we don’t already know. Practice Makes Imperfect invites us to show up in our bodies, as they are; and with a rigor, curiosity, and delight towards dance practice as expansive, ongoing, uniquely unfamiliar, and perfectly imperfect.

Sliding Scale $15-$20/class.
NOTAFLOF

Register by clicking link in bio. Drop-in or pay at the door is also welcome.

Above photo captures dance artists and moving through a group scores practice from a past JPMW rehearsal

Practice Makes Imperfect continues through March. Check out remaining dates and deets below. ✨Come thru. Tuesdays, March...
03/06/2026

Practice Makes Imperfect continues through March. Check out remaining dates and deets below. ✨Come thru.

Tuesdays, March 10th and 17th
Friday, March 27th
Monday, March 30th

All classes 10-12pm
Joe Goode Annex, 401 Alabama St, SF

Through a primarily somatic lens, we will move through actions, efforts, and improvisational tasks; cultivating embodied awareness around that which is already present, in order to potentiate that which we don’t already know. Practice Makes Imperfect invites us to show up in our bodies, as they are; and with a rigor, curiosity, and delight towards dance practice as expansive, ongoing, uniquely unfamiliar, and perfectly imperfect.

Sliding Scale $15-$20/class.
NOTAFLOF

Register by clicking link in bio. Drop-in or pay at the door is also welcome.

Above photo captures dance artists and moving through a group scores practice from a JPMW rehearsal.

I will be leading a morning movement class series in March. Please come through. Tuesdays, March 3, 10, 17Friday, March ...
02/27/2026

I will be leading a morning movement class series in March. Please come through.

Tuesdays, March 3, 10, 17
Friday, March 27
Monday, March 30

All classes 10-12pm
Joe Goode Annex, 401 Alabama St, SF

Through a primarily somatic lens, we will move through actions, efforts, and improvisational tasks; cultivating embodied awareness around that which is already present, in order to potentiate that which we don’t already know. Practice Makes Imperfect invites us to show up in our bodies, as they are; and with a rigor, curiosity, and delight towards dance practice as expansive, ongoing, uniquely unfamiliar, and perfectly imperfect.

Sliding Scale $15-$20/class.
Or $65 for the whole series.
NOTAFLOF

Register by clicking link in bio. Drop-in or pay at the door is also welcome.

12/03/2025

Reflecting again on what it means to gather together in space that is open to the public, and to share in the collective intimacy of art and everydayness, through free public performance. Thank you for supporting JPMWs ongoing work of integrating art in urban ecologies.

Through a donation via our fiscal sponsor, Dancers' Group, you support free, outdoor, public dance performance, and the artists who make it possible. Tap on our Linktree tab on our page to donate



On our third run of the day, the park turned golden with light, and slipped into a peaceful quietude, as the sun began t...
10/21/2025

On our third run of the day, the park turned golden with light, and slipped into a peaceful quietude, as the sun began to set, and park-goers started to head out with the almost arrival of evening. For us, this shift really highlighted the durational aspect of both the performance and the creative process, as the quiet spaciousness of the park allowed us to embody a fullness that drew upon the accumulation of our experience there over time.

Captured above is finding the sustained physicality of a third run with clarity and fullness of expression. Bathed in warm sunlight, her folded shape dynamically intersects the elongated tree trunk shadows that line the meadow floor, and mark the near close of a cycle.

Thank you to all the collaborating artists of “Grass, Gravel, & the Space Between Trees,”for sustaining this process over much time, with soft power, grace, and fabulous human-beingness. It was a pure delight.



Thank you to colleagues, friends, and family who joined us throughout the sun-filled day on 9/13. We were grateful to gather together in shared space, community, and art making.

Photo credit and gratitude to the incredibly talented, natural-light photographer

Thank you to and for their support








Our performance installation in the park was as much about ways of seeing, as it was about ways of being. I love this ph...
10/13/2025

Our performance installation in the park was as much about ways of seeing, as it was about ways of being. I love this photo by for the way it delicately captures both modes, asking the viewer to consider the experience of seeing between, or of being seen between.

Meanwhile, always thoughtful, artistic collaborator and improviser brings these questions to light, as she finds an intentional, yet receptive stance; not static or fluid. A pause, between what is happening and the possibility of what is yet to come.

“Grass, Gravel, & the Space Between Trees” was presented in partnership with and in co-creation with




Object exploration almost always lives within our work. Investigating the weight of the object, its shape, its texture, ...
10/07/2025

Object exploration almost always lives within our work. Investigating the weight of the object, its shape, its texture, its dynamic potentiality. We are interested not only in the phenomenological experience of the thing, but the relationship and/or ambiguous nature between performative and task-based action; and the impossibility of pure vs contextualized experience. In “Grass, Gravel & the Space Between Trees,” almost all of the objects we used were found, or more appropriately stated, already there. Pictured above is deftly balancing a long and twisted stick, that had arrived to our site one rehearsal day (maybe on the wind, or by the hand of a playful child whose guardian asked that it stay behind), beckoning itself to become part of our process.






Photo Credit

Gratitude to all the collaborating artists on this project

Exploring the ongoingness of art practice in a world that overvalues end products, immediacy over reflective-process, an...
10/04/2025

Exploring the ongoingness of art practice in a world that overvalues end products, immediacy over reflective-process, and the commodification of nature, is a core artistic concern in our creative process, and one of the many reasons why we choose to work outdoors. In the creation of “Grass, Gravel, & the Space Between Trees,” the trees themselves, with their seasonal capacity to mark the ongoingness of time, emerged as inspirational collaborators - rooted, steady, and sensitive in their ways.

Thank you smderyan for this beautiful moment of being in gratitude and connection; and to hillarygoidell for seeing and capturing it.

Thank you to the other collaborating artists ain_eliz_tharp doublechinnychin irenehsi mayamohsinn phoeniciapettyjohn clark_buckner

Photo Description: Dance Artist smderyan stands beneath a London Plane tree in Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse, framed by its thick, arching branches. Shareen, in turn, arches her back to look up at the tree, both arms reaching up, and hands loosely intertwined, resembling a prayer. She wears a bright green jacket and jeans. In the background there are bushes in full bloom, with small pink flowers, and other greenery, including grass. The light is soft, and heading towards dusk.

Thank you to our partners sfrecpark and to our fiscal sponsors dancersgroupsf for support during this project.








More beautiful, invested explorations; and dappled light from “Grass, Gravel & the Space Between Trees.” 💫 Photo Credit...
10/02/2025

More beautiful, invested explorations; and dappled light from “Grass, Gravel & the Space Between Trees.”

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Photo Credit

Photo Description:
Dance Artist, ainsley e. tharp, finishes a spinning circular path to the ground, holding a large branch from a nearby London Plane tree. Her arm, and the branch, are stretched out in front of her. She is on her side. Her knees are bent, and her hair covers her face from the motion. There are shadows around her on the ground, and piles of leaves. She wears brown pants, and a bright, multi-colored top.

So much lingering light ☀️… thank you again to all who nourished us with their presence and energy during our immersive,...
09/30/2025

So much lingering light ☀️… thank you again to all who nourished us with their presence and energy during our immersive, public, movement installation of “Grass, Gravel & the Space Between Trees.”

Please continue to follow along for more beautiful captures by

Photo Description: Collaborator dances in Golden Gate Park, in the late afternoon sunlight of the Music Concourse. She uses the movement of her feet to mark lines and arcs into the gravelly surface beneath her, consequently agitating the gravel into a dusty cloud that surrounds her. Her shadow is well defined, and she notices it in front of her.

In co-creation with the artists




Thank you to everyone who came out for “Grass, Gravel, & the Space Between Trees,” to share in the nourishment of gather...
09/25/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out for “Grass, Gravel, & the Space Between Trees,” to share in the nourishment of gathering together in park space, and to be with us in the act of moving, seeing, resting, and art making in public space.

Thank you to the tremendously dynamic, sensitive, and powerful artists and collaborators and to site and tech assistants .buckner27

Photo credit ♥️
More to come soon, through her amazing lens

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