JOANNA MENDL SHAW

Choreographer

JOANNA MENDL SHAW, a veteran choreographer and dance educator, has been expanding the parameters and strategies for dance-making since 1998. Her company, The Equus Projects, tours throughout the States and Europe, creating site-specific works in immersive collaboration with local communities. An internationally recognized dance educator, JoAnna has taught on faculty at NYU, The Juilliard School, Alvin Ailey, Princeton, Mount Holyoke, and Montclair State. JoAnna is the recipient of NEA Choreographic Fellowships and multiple NEA grants for Interdisciplinary Performance. She has brought her somatic practice of Physical Listening into elementary schools and academic think tanks, the Naval War College, NYU Medical School, and in 2024, as a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine. JoAnna is a certified Laban Movement Analyst and is the author of Physical Listening, A Dancer’s Interspecies Journey.