Jennifer Monson

Urbana

Jennifer Monson (Artistic director of iLAND-interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance) uses choreographic practice as a means to discover connections between environmental, philosophical and aesthetic approaches to knowledge and understandings of our surroundings. She creates large-scale dance projects informed and inspired by phenomena of the natural and the built environment. Her projects include BIRD BRAIN (2000-2006), iMAP/Ridgewood Reservoir (2007) Mahomet Aquifer Project (2009), SIP (sustained immersive process)/watershed (2010), Live Dancing Archive Vol. I & II (2012 and 2014) and in tow(2015). Monson is on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in the Dance Department and was a Marsh Professor At Large at the University of Vermont (2010-2016). www.ilandart.org