Justin Morris
Justin Morris is teaching Modern/Contemporary 1 course in Fall 2025.
- M.F.A. from University California, Riverside in Experimental Choreography
- B.F.A. in Dance from California State University, Long Beach
- Training at both Washington State University and Riverside City College
Justin (they/them/theirs, she/her/hers, he/him/his, fluctuating pronouns) is a transdisciplinary movement based artist and movement teacher/facilitator based in Southern California. They began cultivating their practice at a young age at family functions and have continued to tie and ground their work in blackness, queerness, playfulness, and ratchet/dis-respectability body politics. Justin has always been a lover of moving with/in/through the floor but began 鈥渢raining鈥 aspects of floorwork at Washington State University, Riverside City College, and CSU Long Beach where they were introduced to capoeira, somatic body patterning, and release technique. Justin has performed/collaborated in performances and dance-based works with artists Jay Carlon, Kirsten Johansen, Kevin Williamson, Alex Shilling, Colleen Thomas, visual artist David Lamelas, Rebecca Bryant, Rosa Rodriguez-Fraiser, and Summation Dance Company. Justin has taught various forms and genres of dance across diverse student populations including working with Conga Kids as a teaching artist, Renaissance High School for the Arts in Long Beach, and has set choreographic work at both AB Miller High School (Fontana Unified) and Chadwick School Performing Arts. They are also an associate professor of dance teaching Jazz dance at Saddleback College.
