Jill Johnson: Body and Soul podcast

Choreographer Jill Johnson talks with Eva about her residency with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and her new dance installation, The Copier. Program notes--http://infinitebody.blogspot.com. Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet info at www.cedarlakedance.com. (c)2008, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

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Podcast Notes: Upcoming on "Body and Soul"

My next guest on Body and Soul podcast will be dancer-choreographer Jill Johnson, a protégé of Ballet Frankfurt's William Forsythe. Johnson will soon conclude a residency with New York's acclaimed Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. The 15-member troupe, led by Artistic Director Benoit-Swan Pouffer, is preparing to perform Johnson's dance installation, The Copier, next week (Wednesday, August 20 through Saturday, August 23) at the company's spacious headquarters in Chelsea. We met after a rehearsal to chat about the development of this piece and the excitement of dancers performing at close quarters with their audience.

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. She has staged William Forsythe’s ballets for 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. Recently commissioned to design and lead a dance workshop series at the Baryshnikov Center, Ms. Johnson has a residency teaching monthly master workshops at Cedar Lake in New York City. Ms. Johnson is adjunct faculty at the Juilliard School, has taught master classes at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and The Alvin Ailey School and choreographs for television and film. She lives in New York City.

Schedule and ticketing for CLCB's The Copier: SmartTix.com

More about CLCB's installation series

Find out more in my upcoming episode of Body and Soul podcast and on Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet's site.