Joanna Haigood, choreographer, has been Artistic Director of Zaccho Dance Theatre since 1980. Her work has been commissioned by many arts institutions, including Dancing in the Streets, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Walker Arts Center, the Exploratorium Museum, the National Black Arts Festival, Festival d’Avignon as well as Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet and Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. Joanna has also had the privilege to mentor many extraordinary young artists internationally at the National École des Arts du Cirque in France, the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in England, Spelman College, the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University, San Francisco Circus Center and at Zaccho Studio.