JUSTIN TORNOW is an artist, researcher, and PhD student in Philadelphia, PA. Her artistic interests are centered in collaborative and interdisciplinary experiments that are conducted with a core group of partners across sound, light, film, maps, and motion. Her research and doctoral work reflect her artistic interests as porous contexts that engage more directly with philosophy, ontology, material, architecture and design, and the Baroque.  

Since 2012, Justin has been teaching college-level courses and workshops in technique, repertory, and composition as an adjunct and guest artist and as faculty at the American Dance Festival. Justin was the 2017 teaching-artist-in-residence at Tanzart Atelier in Kirschau, Germany, and a 2019 artist-in-residence with The Commons at Carolina Performing Arts at UNC-Chapel Hill. As a 2018-2019 Cunningham Dance Research Fellow with the New York Public Library, Justin published original research on the technique titled Cunningham Technique as a Practice of Freedom—since then, Justin has expanded that work into a course design she calls Applications for Cunningham Technique that aims to treat the technique as a space to study our approach to practice, in and of itself. For more information on her work, visit www.justintornow.com 

Justin is founder and director of the COMPANY collective and co-creator of beta tests, a space where she and collaborator Ultrabillions conduct sound-and-movement experiments. In a past life in Durham, Justin designed Happenings (as simultaneous artistic situations in public spaces,) created and produced PROMPTS, and was a proud co-founder and co-organizer of Durham Independent Dance Artists (DIDA).