Jill Johnson is an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, director, and educator. She has performed in over 60 tours across five continents, was a soloist with the National Ballet of Canada, and a principal dancer and key collaborator with William Forsythe and the Frankfurt Ballet, contributing for over three decades to the creation and transmission of his choreographic work.
Johnson served for a decade as Director of Dance at Harvard University, where she founded the Harvard Dance Project and built interdisciplinary programs across the arts, humanities, and sciences. She has served on the faculty at Columbia University, NYU, Princeton University, The Juilliard School, and The New School, and has taught master classes at Alvin Ailey School, Brown University, Yale University, and the Edinburgh Festival.
Her work spans dance, theater, opera, film, and education, with collaborators including American Repertory Theater, La Scala, L.A. Dance Project, Netherlands Dance Theatre, Paris Opera Ballet, Rambert Dance, The Getty, and The Louvre. Her critically acclaimed work ANALOGUE for Rambert was named a Top 5 UK production in 2024.
She is a Senior Fellow at the Swiss Institute for Advanced Study (Collegium Helveticum), and the founder and director of Jill Johnson Dance, a creative and cultural leadership foundry working at the intersection of movement, innovation, and culture. She is based in Los Angeles.