Jennifer Monson

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.