Justin Tornow is an American dancer, choreographer, dance scholar, and dance teacher.
14 Facts About Justin Tornow
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Justin Tornow is the founder and artistic director of COMPANY, a co-founder and co-organizer of Durham Independent Dance Artists, former board president of the North Carolina Dance Alliance, and producer of the PROMPTS art series in Durham, North Carolina.
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Justin Tornow serves on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Elon University, and the American Dance Festival.
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Justin Tornow was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina and attended Providence High School.
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Justin Tornow graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a bachelor's degree in dance and political science in 2001.
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Justin Tornow is the founder and artistic director of COMPANY, a modern and contemporary dance company based in Durham, and a producer of the Durham artist series PROMPTS.
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Justin Tornow is a co-founder and co-organizer of Durham Independent Dance Artists, served as board president for the North Carolina Dance Alliance, and was a member of Black Box Dance Theater Company based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Justin Tornow has collaborated with visual artist Heather Gordon, photographer Alex Maness, and musicians Matthew McClure and Lee Weisert in her choreographic works.
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Justin Tornow's work has been presented by the UNC Process Series in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; the Sax Open Festival in Strasbourg, France; UGA-Cortona in Cortona, Italy; the Fringe Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina; the Wake Forest Dance Festival in Wake Forest, North Carolina; Triangle Dance Project in Durham, the DUMBO Dance Festival in Brooklyn, New York; CoolNY Festival in New York; the North Carolina Dance Festival, and the Philly Fringe Festival in Philadelphia.
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Justin Tornow is an adjunct professor of dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's College of Visual and Performing Arts and at Elon University and is on faculty at the American Dance Festival.
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Justin Tornow served as an artist in residence at Tanzart Atelier in Kirschau, Germany and is a New York Public Library Research Fellow in Merce Cunnigham dance pedagogy.
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In January 2019 Justin Tornow presented Cunningham Technique as a Practice of Freedom at Lincoln Center.
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On October 7,2016, Justin Tornow presented her work The Lowest Form of Poetry at the University of Georgia's Hugh Hodgson School of Music.
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In February 2017 Justin Tornow premiered the piece Echo at 21c Museum Hotel in downtown Durham.