Join an intimate, student-led lunchtime conversation with Emmy award-winning choreographer, director, and dance innovator Jon Boogz. Boogz will share his own personal journey as an entrepreneurial artist and artist-citizen, and how he has made meaningful work that goes beyond industry expectations.
Lunch provided! Open to Harvard undergraduate students.
Co-presented by the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) Dance Program and Learning from Performers program, and Theater, Dance & Media. Additional support through The Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities at Harvard University.
Other events with Jon Boogz:
4/2/25, 5 - 6:30 pm: Artist Talk at ArtLab
4/2/25, 7 - 8 pm: Popping Workshop at ArtLab
About Jon Boogz:
Emmy Award-winning movement artist/choreographer/director, Jon Boogz is a groundbreaker and leader in today’s street dance community. Jon and his collective are committed to uplifting the art form of street dance, Jon is passionate about getting the authenticity of the story right, while crafting dance and drama to speak to today’s audience in powerful and inspiring ways.
Jon recently received an Emmy Award for his choreography work on the Lionsgate/Starz hit TV series “Blindspotting,” created by Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal. He is also directing/writing a Broadway show with the Public Theater and is developing a first of its kind action-adventure dance TV series with David Levine at Anonymous Content. Jon’s many credits include choreography for such Mikhail Baryshnikov, Naomi Campbell, and Gloria Estefan. He choreographed Pharrell’s Adidas Originals campaign, and creative directed, choreographed and performed in the Adidas Standing Rock campaign at ComplexCon. He has also worked as a director and choreographer for campaigns for Louis Vuitton’s Virgil Abloh tribute, Banana Republic, NFL (Emmy nominated), Apple and Lexus. His collaborators include Netflix, Lin Manuel Miranda, Hulu, Facebook, Dom Perignon, Terrence Malick, TEDx and Flying Lotus.
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