Joanna Haigood

has been commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Dancing in the Streets, Walker Arts Center, the Exploratorium Museum, the National Black Arts Festival, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Black Choreographers Moving Festival, Festival d’Avignon and Festival d’Arles in France, among others. She has received a Goldie Award and three Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. She has taught at the National Ecole des Arts du Cirque in France, the Laban Centre in England, Spelman College, the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University, and the University of California at Davis. She currently teaches at the San Francisco Clown Conservatory.