Elizabeth Johnson’s choreography has been produced in New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Louisville, New Haven, CT, the Krannert Center for the Arts in Urbana, and has been selected for Gala performance at the American College Dance Festival. Her education includes graduating high school from North Carolina School of the Arts where she trained with many notable teachers including Melissa Hayden, Duncan Noble, and Robert Lindgren. She earned a BFA in Dance from George Mason University, an MFA in Performance and Choreography from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a GLCMA (Graduate Laban Certificate of Movement Analysis) in Laban Movement Analysis from Columbia College Chicago. Ms. Johnson dances and tours nationally and internationally as a guest artist with the New York City company David Parker and The Bang Group and also performs with Sara Hook Dances (NYC & IL), and Molly Rabinowitz Liquid Grip (NYC). She has served as dance faculty at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, UW Madison, and currently teaches technique and theory courses at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Ms. Johnson has conducted guest residencies at Texas Christian University and the Youth Performing Arts High School in Louisville, KY and teaches regularly at Danceworks in Milwaukee.
