Millicent Johnnie

Millicent Johnnie

Choreographer, Party People

Other choreography credits: Food for Thought (Danspace), DanceNOW, Dance Harlem, Joyce Soho Series, The Yard at Lincoln Center, Urban Bush Women, Parable of the Sower workshop (New York City Opera), Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, UNIVERSES' Ameriville, The Hip Hop Project (Krannert Performing Arts Center), Cleo Parker-Robinson Dance, Hubbard Street II, Alternate Roots Cultural Tour Uprooted: The Katrina Project, ESPN, Prince William Network, Sunshine Network and has been presented at venues such as the International Association for Blacks in Dance Conferences, Houston Black Dance Festival, New Orleans Jazz Dance Project. Worked with directors Peter Sellars, Rhodessa Jones and Chay Yew.

Other credits: Teaching: Assistant professor of dance, Southern Methodist University; resident choreographer and rehearsal director of the Urban Bush Women; cofounded Phlava Hip Hop and Jazz Dance Company. Training: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Ronald K. Brown, Garth Fagan, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, Richard Gonzales, Reginald Yates, Yvonne Daniels.

Awards: Prague International Dance Festival Award for Best Choreography and First Place International Dance Title for Hip Hop Choreography (Wrath, Phlava Hip Hop and Jazz Dance Company).

Education: BFA and MFA in dance, Florida State University.