About Joanna

Joanna Kotze is a Brooklyn-based, Bessie-award winning dancer, choreographer and teacher. She creates highly physical dance performances through a collaborative, multi-disciplinary process, presenting ways to look at effort, labor, humor, violence, unpredictability, and beauty through movement as well as the body’s relationship to sound, materials, light, and space. Her choreography has been presented at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Yard, Bates Dance Festival, Opera House Arts, Baryshnikov Arts Center, American Dance Institute, New York Live Arts, Danspace Project, Bard College, Jacob’s Pillow, Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research at Judson Church, Roulette, and other venues and galleries. She has created new works on Toronto Dance Theatre, Ririe-Woodbury, Zenon Dance, James Sewell Ballet and Gibney Dance. Joanna has had residencies through MANCC, Dance Place, Movement Research, Baryshnikov Arts Center, LMCC, New York Live Arts, 92nd Street Y, Exploring the Metropolis, Jacob’s Pillow, The Camargo Foundation, The Bogliasco Foundation, Milvus Artistic Research Center, Dance Programme Malmö, The Yard, Marble House Project, Djerassi, Bennington College, and Mount Tremper Arts. She danced with Wally Cardona from 2000-2010 and again in 2018 and currently dances with Kimberly Bartosik. Joanna is on faculty at Movement Research and has taught at Gibney Dance, NYU’s Tisch, The New School, Barnard, Purchase, LIU, Bates, Amherst, Sarah Lawrence, Southern Utah University, Miami University, Salt Dance Fest, and the American Dance Festival. She is originally from South Africa and has a BA in Architecture from Miami University. www.joannakotze.com