Djassi DaCosta Johnson

Guest/Teaching Artist | Mentor

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Djassi DaCosta Johnson is a native New Yorker, dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, photographer, writer, designer (Radical Women BK), Doula, Womb Healer and Women’s Sexual & Sensual Agency Activist. Ms. DaCosta Johnson received her BA in Anthropology and English from Barnard College, was a fellowship student at Alvin Ailey and received her M.F.A. in Dance & New Media/ Technology from NYU Tisch in 2018 as a Dean’s fellow. As a dancer, she apprenticed, performed and toured with, Dance Brazil, Earl Mosley, Bill T. Jones, Hernando Cortez, Urban Bush Women, and was a soloist with MOMIX for a decade. She lived abroad in Brazil and then Italy for seven years working on film and television and returned to NYC working more with her choreography from behind the lens. She collaborates with jazz musicians and visual artists and for festivals such as PERFORMA and Vision Fest (NYC).Her choreography, photography and films have been showcased at Museums, Galleries and exhibitions internationally including Photoville (Brooklyn), National Museum of Women in The Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Shed Halle (Zurich), and throughout Italy. She writes about, dance, culture and sexual healing and has contributed to international publications including; The Daily News, TRACE, VIBE, KINFOLK, {DIYdancer}, Playbill and Harvard Design Magazine. Ms. DaCosta Johnson has been an Assistant Professor at The University of Virgin Islands where she implemented the first Dance Performance BFA in 2022, and where she teaches Ballet, Humanities and Theater. She most recently performed the solo "Anyanwu" for New York fashion week and The Fearless Artist.

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