Overview
Asili Johnson is a graduate student in the Dance MFA Embodied Interdisciplinary Practice.
Degree: B.A. Economics and Dance Performance & Choreography | Spelman College
Asili Johnson is a choreographer working at the cross points of performance, authenticity and business, and is invested in watching the process come to life. While at Spelman College, she produced her first work, “Stand N Your Purpose: The Asili Sankofa Story,” an auto-ethnographic work of re-self-discovery that premiered at Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.
She is enamored by the Black vernacular dances that inform her movement with her background in traditional American genres of dance while being rooted in her training in traditional West African dance and rhythms. She also values authenticity, intricacy and musicality in her practice. Her ingenuity and ability to transcend movement and choreography speak for themselves and come from years of practice where she allows her ancestors to lead the way.