MARGARET JENKINS began her training in San Francisco. In the sixties she went to Juilliard School of Music in New York where she studied with Jose Limon and Martha Graham. She continued her training at UCLA then returned again to New York to dance in the companies of Jack Moore, Viola Farber, Judy Dunn, James Cunningham, Gus Solomons jr, and Twyla Tharp's original company. She also performed her own work at various spaces in New York including regular productions at Dance Theater Workshop. For twelve years, she acted as Merce Cunningham's special assistant, teaching and restaging his works for companies in Europe and the United States. In 1970, Ms. Jenkins returned to San Francisco where she formed her company and school, as well as initiating a number of performance space alternatives. Her newest work Breathe Normally premiered in Chicago in March, with subsequent performances at the Joyce Theater (NY) and throughout the United States. The San Francisco premiere will take place the weeks of August 21 and 28 at the Yerba Buena Gardens, Theater, SF.