Meet The Mentor: Jenny Durbin Smith
Jenny Durbin Smith is a nationally recognized and sought after award-winning choreographer. Her resume reads like a "who's who" list in the dance industry!
She trained in jazz and hip-hop during her college years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill while obtaining a double degree in journalism and communication studies. During her time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill she was a member of the national award-winning cheer and dance teams. Jenny has been a member of the NBA Dallas Mavericks Dancers where she served as captain in her second year. She has also been a principle dancer and actor for many national industrials, commercials and films.
Jenny’s dynamic choreography has been featured on many national television commercials, industrials, films, reality television shows, and international stages including Oprah’s Vision Tour Dallas, ‘Queen of the South,’ Hasbro, Mary Kay, ‘America’s Got Talent,’ MTV’s ‘TRL,’ the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the NFL’s Pro Bowl and Monday Night Football. In addition to being the proud director of the NFL’s first co-ed hip hop crew, the Dallas Cowboys Rhythm and Blue, she also directs the Dallas Cowboys Rookie Squad & The Officials dance crew and travels internationally choreographing for numerous high school, collegiate and professional NFL and NBA dance teams as well as dance studios. Jenny has been featured in Dance Track Magazine, Dance Team Magazine and Inside Dance!
CHOREOGRAPHY, DIRECTION and ADJUCATION CREDITS:
- Director & Head Choreographer of the Dallas Cowboys Rhythm & Blue Dancers
- Director & Head Choreographer of the Dallas Cowboys Rookie Squad, the first and only kids crew in the NFL
- Director & Head Choreographer for The Officials dance crew, nationally award winning and recognized dance crew
- Choreographer for ABC Studios “False Profits” Pilot
- Choreographer for FOX Network’s “Queen of the South,” ‘Diez de Copas’ episode
- Contributing Choreographer for “It’s Christmas Again” Mapelle Films
- Artistic Direction for The Officials performance for Ice Cube’s Return of the Big 3 Ballout Dallas, 2021-22
- Oprah’s Vision Tour Dallas
- On-Set Choreography and Instruction for Toyota ft. Emmitt Smith, Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach & Dak Prescott
- Choreographer for Svedka Vodka Commercials, ‘Svedka Goes Cowboy’ & ‘Svedka Goes Wedding’
- Choreographer for DART Transportation Commercial, “Dancing”
- Creative Director, Choreographer & Producer for the Dallas Cowboys “Back to Football Halftime” for NBC/Nike featuring the Dallas Cowboys Rhythm & Blue and the Kinjaz and Super Cr3w for NBC’s hit show, ‘World of Dance’
- Creative Director, Choreographer & Producer for the Dallas Cowboys “#FinishThisFight Halftime” featuring the Dallas Cowboys Rhythm & Blue, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, and the Rookie Squad
- Adrenaline Dance Convention Faculty, Adrenaline Dance
- Revive Dance Convention Faculty, Revive
- National Dance Honors Faculty
- BuildaBeast TX Instructor, IMMABEAST Co
- Urban Legends Instructor, Urban Legends
- World Of Dance Tour Panel Judge
- VARSITY PRO Choreographer & Faculty
- UDA & NDA Choreographer for Collegiate & High School Summer Camp Curriculum
- NDA & USASF, Hip Hop Score Sheet Advisory Board
- USASF/UDA/USA/NDA Hip Hop Master Instructor
- UDA Judge, NDA Judge, USA Judge, Dance Summit Judge, USASF Dance Worlds Judge, ONP Mexico Judge. Proficient in Hip Hop, Pom, Jazz, Contemporary/Lyrical, Kick, Variety, Song, and Pep Flag genres.
- Varsity University, Master Instructor and Presenter
- Stage 8 Dance and Dance Connection Master Instructor and Judge
- Dallas ‘Influencer Award’ Inaugural Recipient, Dallas Hip Hop Dance Festival
- Dallas Hip Hop Dance Festival, Master Instructor & Event Emcee
- Texas Dance Educators Association Master Instructor sponsored by Varsity Spirit
- NFL Pro Bowl 2015, Contributing Choreographer
- Super Bowl 45 Party featuring Drake, Choreography
- CFL Master Class, Choreography CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders
- Choreographer/Instructor for Choreography Pros and All Pro Convention
- DIFFA Dallas, Co-Director of Dance
- Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders 2005-Present, Choreography
- 2007 & 2008 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Thanksgiving Halftime shows featuring Kelly Clarkson and The Jonas Brothers, Choreography
- 2010 and 2011 Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving halftimes featuring Keith Urban and Enrique Iglesias & Pitbull, Choreography
- MTV's "TRL" featuring Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, Choreography
- CMT's "Making The Team" starring The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, Choreography
- Monday Night Football Commercial featuring DCC, Choreography
- NBC's "America's Got Talent," Dallas Desperados Dancers, Choreographer
- Director & Choreographer of the Dallas Desperados Dancers, "The most exciting dance team in all of professional sports!"
- Choreographer for the Arena Football League, ArenaBowl XXI, XXII and the Aaron's AFL Dream Team
- Choreographer for the Dallas Desperados Young Guns
- Candy’s Signature Cocktails “Honey B You”, Choreographer
- World of Dance Dallas & Chicago, Creative Director and Contributing Choreographer for 1st and 2nd place crews
- Choreographer & Principal Dancer for Tuaca's Evolution National Tour
- C&C Productions, Executive Choreographer
- Mary Kay (x6), Choreographer
- Chuck E. Cheese national commercials and industrials (x45), Choreographer and Principal Dancer
- Hasbro’s Spiderman commercial, Choreographer
- Hasbro’s Twister's High School Musical 2 Commercial, Choreographer
- TXU Energy “Bauer Power Hour” Commercial, Choreographer
- WalMart, Sam’s Club, Lennox, and JCPenney Industrials, Choreographer
- Target, Pepsi and Dillard’s, Choreographer
- WFAA Dale Hansen commercial, Choreographer and Principal Dancer
- Honorary Inductee to Chi Tau Epsilon Honorary Dance Society at Grambling State University
DANCING/ACTING CREDITS:
- Sugarhill Gang, The Beach Boys, The Commodores, Rascal Flatts, The Black Crowes, featured Dancer
- NBA Dallas Mavericks Dancers, Captain
- “Live with Regis and Kelly,” featured Dancer
- Chuck E Cheese Commercials & In Store Videos, Principal
- Hasbro's DreamLife Superstar National Commercial, Principal
- Doritos, Principal Dancer
- Arby's, Principal Dancer
- Harrah's Casino VEX commercial, Principal
- Dave & Buster's National commercial, Principal
- Heelys National commercial, Principal
- Frito Lay’s “The Voice”
- D Magazine, Principal Dancer
- Maxim
- Red Bull
- Shotz Energy Drink
- Nascar, Principal
- The Movie Channel
- Chevrolet
- Chuppa Chups Lollipops
- Betsey Johnson
- Toni & Guy
- Good Morning Texas & Good Day Dallas
- Farouk Hair Systems, CHI Industrial, featured Dancer
- Beauticontrol Industrial, featured Dancer
- Sony Music's Chicago as Roxie, Viva Las Vegas, Studio 54 and Moulin Rouge Productions
- Viva-La Lance Armstrong
- Neiman Marcus Cattlebaron's Ball/Dallas and Lubbock, TX
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cheer & Dance Teams