Jennifer Monson

Jennifer Monson
Monson (left) with Niall Jones, 2012.
Born (1961-03-14) March 14, 1961 (age 63)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSarah Lawrence College
Occupations
  • Dancer
  • choreographer

Jennifer Monson (born March 14, 1961) is an American dancer and choreographer. She has been actively creating dance work since the 1980s.[1] 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.[2][3][4][5] Monson grew up in southern California and, at one point, wanted to be a park ranger.[6] She was awarded the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (1998) and in 2000, Monson received the Creative Capital Performing Arts Award.[7] She now resides in Illinois as a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, after living in Williamsburg in Brooklyn from 1991–2002.[8] 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.[9]

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  7. ^ "Jennifer Monson: Bird Brain". creative-capital.org. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  8. ^ iLAND (10 July 2014), Jennifer Monson at Danspace Platform 2014, retrieved 12 December 2019
  9. ^ "Jennifer Monson". Atlantic Center for the Arts. Retrieved 12 December 2019.