Jill Becker
Associate Professor of Dance

B.A., State University of New York at Brockport; M.A. in Performing Arts, American University.

769-1026
South Gym
jbecker@antioch-college.edu

Teaching Responsibilities

Heads Dance program and is currently teaching Embodied Mind/Thinking Body, as part of the new curriculum, choreographs dances for students, and mentors student works in the Fall & Spring Dance Concerts. She teaches Modern Dance Technique, Improvisation, Dance Composition and Movement Studies

Scholarly Interests

Jill has created 14 dances about contemporary and historical female figures as part of a series entitled Portraits of Women. She is also interested in Butoh, a Japanese modern dance form.

Jill Becker is in her fifth year of teaching dance at Antioch College. For six years, she directed Jill Becker and Dancers, Inc. in New York City. She has received numerous grants, including a National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship. She has toured extensively with one woman shows in Germany, Holland and the USA. She is particularly interested in making dances that draw attention to important women from history and their social and political context. She loves humor, in her choreography, in dance class, in life and even at meetings!

Jill has taught on the faculties of New York University, Middlebury College, Connecticut College, Rotterdamse Dansacademuc (Holland), Die Werkstatt Dusseldorf (Germany), and Cornell University. She has also worked extensively with children in the public schools.