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JILL JOHNSON
Dancer, choreographer, educator, and producer Jill Johnson’s fusion of classical purity with modern physical grace has brought her to stages around the globe. She has appeared in over 50 tours and taught master classes at dance companies and colleges on five continents. A graduate of the National Ballet School, Jill was a soloist with The National Ballet of Canada and principal dancer with Ballet Frankfurt. A protégé and close collaborator of choreographer William Forsythe, she stages his ballets on companies worldwide, including The Norwegian National Ballet, State Opera Ballet Munich, Paris Opera Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Italy’s Alterballetto, Netherlands Dans Theater, Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, The National Ballet of Canada and American Ballet Theatre. Her recent choreographic work includes The Copier, a commissioned original dance installation for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, which received critical acclaim including honorable mention in Time Out New York’s Best in Dance in 2008; Room/Room for NYU, and 27 for 17 for The New School University where she was Artist-in-Residence in the spring of 2009. She also choreographs for film and television, notably a series of dance film shorts for Bravo arts channel in Canada; a featured performer in commercials for Rover, and music videos for German techno artist Sven Vaeth and American singer-songwriter David Poe. Johnson has a residency teaching open, master workshops at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City in 2009-2010; is adjunct faculty at the Juilliard School and The New School University, and faculty at The Joffrey School; faculty and Choreographer-In-Residence at Movement Invention Project in New York, and teaches regularly at The Ailey School, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Ohio State University where she collaborated on the OSU/Forsythe Company web-based project Synchronous Objects. She lives in New York City.
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