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Jack continued his studies in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. His studies focused on choreography, technique, performance, production, critical theory, design, and pedagogy. While working on his advanced degree he studied, taught, choreographed, and performed in Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, New York City, Atlanta, Charlotte, Columbia, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, and England. Jack completed his MFA in 2002.
Kirven's teachers are some of the most talented artists in theatre today and include Rhonda Blanchard Austin, Shiva Baily, Michele Bloom, Nancy Zupp Bolden, Alain Charron (deceased), Mary Jo Dondlinger, Kim Epifano, William Forsythe (formerly of Ballett Frankfurtt), Simone Forti, David Gere, Rebecca Lazier, Victoria Marks, Nina Martin, Peter Nabokov, David Roussève, Charles Tomlinson, Leslie Tunstall-Weiner, and Penolope Wyer.
As a professional Jack has performed, choreographed, and/or collaborated with several companies including Raw Impressions Dance Theatre, the Greenville Ballet, Sapphire Moon Dance Ensemble, and [project incite]. He was a founding artistic director of the Royal Corkscrew Dance Theatre (New York) and is currently the artistic director of his own pick-up company: Viscera Dance Theatre. As an educator Kirven has taught all levels and in a diverse range of environments. He began his teaching career as a high school teacher (Keenan High School, Columbia, SC), and has also taught at Lander University, Columbia College, Coker College, Winthrop University, UNC-Charlotte, and UCLA.

Jack has published a resource book for lesson plans implementing kinesthetic learning across the curriculum, and has written the first novel in a three-part series. He is also a nationally certified Personal Fitness Trainer, and is currently pursuing independent bookings whereby he can offer specialized intensive residencies to a variety of institutions. His interests outside dance include web design, history, fiction, foreign languages, poetry, multi-media experimentation, and mythology.

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Jack Kirven began formal dance training at Coker College (South Carolina) where he completed B.A. degrees in both Dance and French simultaneously in 1998. While an undergraduate he studied abroad in Tours, France at l'Institut de Touraine, and is capable of teaching in English or French. Jack was the valedictorian for his college class.