Jennifer Muccitelli
Director of Leveling
Jennifer Muccitelli’s early training started with the Allegheny Ballet Company and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. She was chosen as a guest dancer to participate in The Carlisle Project, a young choreographer’s workshop, directed by Barbara Wiesberger. As a young teenager, through scholarships and stipends, her later training came from the San Francisco Ballet School, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, and The Joffrey Ballet School in NYC. Jennifer has performed professionally with The Joffrey Ballet, NYC, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, New Jersey Ballet Company, and Ballet Met of Columbus, OH.
She has enjoyed working with numerous world-renowned teachers and choreographers such as Deborah Anthony, Marcia Dale-Weary, Melinda Howe, Robert Steele, Cherie Noble, Lisa DeRibere, Francesca Corkle, John Magnus, Christopher D’Amboise, Violetta Bovt, John McFall, David Nixon, Paul Gibson, and Janet Popeleski to name a few, throughout her training and career.
She resigned from performing professionally to raise her two children. As the Ballet Coordinator for Dublin Dance Center in Columbus, OH, Jennifer taught classes, choreographed, and set classical works on pre-professional ballet students in an intensive program she created for over six years. Upon returning to her hometown of Altoona in 2009, she joined Penn State University’s adjunct faculty at the main campus in State College. Jennifer taught for three years at PSU as well as created, directed, and choreographed for the Ballet Theatre of Penn State. She was the Artistic/Executive Director of the Allegheny Ballet Company of Altoona, PA for two years and acted as the Staff Coordinator and Ballet Mistress for another six years until 2019 when the school closed. She has passionately been teaching as a permanent faculty member of Nittany Ballet for over five years now and as guest faculty at other central PA dance schools.
Jennifer’s students have attended prestigious summer intensive programs or year-round trainee positions at the American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Austin, Bolshoi Ballet, Boston Ballet, Butler University, Florida State University, Fort Wayne Ballet, Huston Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, Kaatsbaan, LA Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Nevada Ballet Theatre, North Carolina Dance Theatre, The Orlando Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Point Park University, and the School of American Ballet among others.
In addition to teaching, Jennifer works for WPSU Public Broadcasting, an Outreach program of PSU. She obtained a Liberal Arts degree specializing in Health and Science with CNA certification, Business Administration bachelor’s degree specializing in Human Resource Management, and a Human Resources and Employee Relations master’s degree in 2024. To round out her resumé, Jennifer is certified to teach Barre Above ® . She has two children, Connor and Katie, a loving husband, Travis, and a dog, Rami.