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Finding Forsythe | Season 1: Episode 6

Biography:
Dancer Jill Johnson’s fusion of classical purity with modern physical grace has brought her to stages around the globe. A graduate of the National Ballet School, Ms. Johnson was a soloist with The National Ballet of Canada and principal dancer with Ballet Frankfurt. A close collaborator of 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. Ms. Johnson has created her own work including Four for the Juilliard School, and also choreographs for film and television, notably a series of dance film shorts for Bravo arts channel in Canada. Recently commissioned to design and lead a dance workshop series at the Baryshnikov Center, she has a residency teaching open, master workshops at Cedar Lake. Ms. Johnson is adjunct faculty at the Juilliard School, teaches at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, The Alvin Ailey School, and started a residency at The New School’s Eugene Lang College in the spring of 2009. She lives in New York City.