Jenna Lutton graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelors Degree in Dance in 1997.  In 1999 she began teaching dance classes for children at The Phinney Neighborhood Center.  When Gildenfire began, it was 5 students.  Now with 75 students in Ballard and West Seattle it continues to grow every year.  Jenna has taught Aerial Dance and Trapeze.  She also  performed with the Cabiri Dance Troupe in Seattle for 18 months. 

Jenna does continuing education at the Creative Dance Center in North Seattle at least once a year to improve and build on her skills.  In 2010 she went to a teacher training at the New England Center for Circus Arts in Vermont.

Jenna also has taught preschool for 10 years and has two young boys of her own.