Quynn Johnson – Dance/USA Artist Fellow

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Image Description: Quynn Johnson is a Black Woman, with brown locs, wearing a yellow motorcycle jacket, pink shirt, and gold, pink, and light blue necklace. She is standing in front of a colorful background with a large smile. Photo by JA Creative.

Quynn Johnson

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Capitol Heights, MD | Piscataway

Quynn Johnson Ed.M. is a multidisciplinary creative, whose work stands at the powerful crossroads of rhythm, education, and cultural legacy. With degrees from both Harvard University and Howard University, she brings brilliance, balance, and a bold commitment to embodied learning as an award-winning choreographer, and global arts educator. A master tap dancer and teaching artist, she uses rhythm and movement to tell powerful stories in classrooms and on stages around the world. As co-founder of SOLE Defined (with Guggenheim awardee, Ryan Johnson), Quynn’s work fuses tap, body percussion, and education, reaching over 150,000 learners across the U.S., Africa, and the Caribbean. Her work has been featured at The John F. Kennedy Center, The Joyce Theater, Wolf Trap, and more. Performance highlights include Ayodele Casel and Torya Beard: Remix; The Joyce Theater, Diary of a Tap Dancer, A.R.T.; Chasing Magic, The Joyce Theatre; Zaz: The Big Easy, Wexner Center for the Arts; Great Gatsby, The Washington Ballet; Dormeshia: Unsung Sheroes of the 20th Century, Jacob’s Pillow; Savion Glover’s TiiDii3000 Company. Tour: After Midnight (Soloist), Norwegian Cruise Line. She’s also the author of Lucky’s Tap Dancing Feet, a children’s book about dreaming big and dancing louder.

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Image Description: Quynn Johnson, a Black woman with brown locs, is captured mid air while performing on a stage. She is wearing a plaid denim shirt, blue denim jeans, and black boots. The stage is lit with blue and purple lighting. Photo by Jonathan Hsu.
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Image Description: Quynn Johnson is a Black woman dressed in a sleeveless, denim jumpsuit and silver sparkled loafers, dancing in a pool of light. She glances toward the floor as she shifts her weight from one foot to the other. There is a drum set in the background catching some of the light and a collection of living room decorations, including a lamp and a stool, piled in the foreground. Photo by Tony Turner.
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Image Description: Quynn Johnson, a Black woman with brown braids, is dancing in front of two separated mirrors. She is in a black short sleeve top, red pants, and bare feet. Her right arm crosses in front of her body as her torso hinges forward in a powerful, grounded stance. Parts of her back body are reflected in the mirrors. Photo courtesy of The Kennedy Center.
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Image Description: Quynn Johnson is tapping on the Jacob's Pillow Henry J. Leir Stage. She is dressed in a blue and white jumpsuit and white tap shoes. A light skinned Black man with short hair is dressed in a black tee, black pants, and thin framed glasses claps and taps alongside her. Photo by Becca Marcela Oviatt courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow.

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