Jenn Freeman (also known as Po'Chop) is Chicago-based performance artist who uses elements of dance, storytelling, and striptease to create performances and inspire students and collaborators across the country. Po’Chop is the co-founder of House of the Lorde and creator and author of the blogzine The Brown Pages. She has performed at the Brooklyn Museum in Brown Girls Burlesque’s Bodyspeak, at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance for TedxChicago 2022, and headlined shows in New Orleans, Minneapolis, Denver, St. Louis, and New York. Po’Chop is a board member and cast member for Jeezy’s Juke Joint, an all-Black burlesque revue. Po’Chop performs in season two of Netflix’s Easy, appears in music videos for songs by Jamila Woods and Mykele Deville, and creates and performs in experimental dance films such as LITANY. Jenn Freeman has been recognized as a 2022 United States Artist Fellow, a 2022 Dance/USA Fellow, a 2021 Foundation of Contemporary Art Grants to Artists recipient, a 2019-20 Urban Bush Women Choreographic Fellow, and as a 2018 Chicago Dancemakers Lab Artist. Po’Chop was voted among the top 50 Most Influential Burlesque Artists by 21st Century Magazine in 2020, 2021, and 2022, and was a dancer in residence at Rebuild Foundation in 2020. 

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