Jennifer Monson

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Jennifer Monson is a 65 year old American Choreographer. Their zodiac sign is Pisces.

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First Name	Jennifer
Last Name	Monson
Alternative Name	Founder, iLAND, Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Professor Jennifer Monson, Artistic Director, iLAND, Marsh Professor at Large, University of Vermont
Birthday	14th March, 1961
Zodiac Sign	Pisces
Nationality	American
Occupation Text	Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher, Performer, Dance Company Founder
Occupation	Choreographer
Claim to Fame	Her five year dance touring project, BIRD BRAIN (2000 - 2005) which focussed on the migratory patterns and habits of birds and their biophysical and metaphorical relationship to humans.
Music Genre (Text)	Choreographic process, Contemporary Dance, Teaching Dance, Dance Company Founder, Outdoor Performances, Collaborating With Other Dancers/visual Artists/architects And Scientists., Experimental Dance, Dance Improvisation, Dance Curating, Devising Dance Pieces Through Music Scores, The Relationship Between Dance And Environment, Animal Navigation And Migration, Re-Imagining Our Relationship To The Environments/spaces We Inhabit, Human Impact On Natural Sites, Geological Formations, Devising workshops and panel discussions and community involvement to re-engage the general public to our natural surroundings., Devising philosophical and aesthetic approaches to knowledge and understandings of our surroundings, Using choreography itself as an archival practice for documenting environmental phenomena., Employing technological tools including websites and global positioning systems and satellite transmitters.
Year(s) Active	1983 - present
Associated Acts	iLAND, University of Illinois, University of Vermont, iLAB

Jennifer Monson (born March 14, 1961) is an American dancer and choreographer. She has been actively creating dance work since the 1980s. She works with dance improvisation and creates choreography that is at times improvised or devised through scores, as well as collaborating with other dancers, visual artists, architects and scientists. Monson grew up in southern California and, at one point, wanted to be a park ranger. She was awarded the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (1998) and in 2000, Monson received the Creative Capital Performing Arts Award. She now resides in Illinois as a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, after living in Williamsburg in Brooklyn from 1991–2002. At one point, she was also involved with the University of Vermont, where she was a professor at large from 2010–2016 with the dance, environmental studies, and library faculty.

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