About Justin
Justin Who?
Justin Morrison is a Filmmaker, Photographer, Dancer, Dance Educator, Yoga Teacher and Web / IT Consultant, and Videographer. This is his personal website and blog.
With his diversity of skills, interests, and backgrounds, this site is an effort to link some of the more interesting endeavors (for the mundane stuff look to Social Media), from Film & Video Production, to Performance, Dance, Yoga, Consulting, Live Streaming, Producing and Teaching.
If you think that’s a bit much for one person, consider that in a recent study of over 1,000 artists, 61% identified as freelancers and 42% held one or more jobs that don’t relate to their art practice.
Stuff Online
Early Days – The Present
-=[_ Technothrill _]=-
Justin’s been online since before the Internet was a thing, and he’s not even that old. Before obtaining an email address around 1995, Justin had an BBS (software that lets computers call other computers using a telephone and modem) running WWIV. At this point he referred to himself by the handle -=[Nova]=- (after the PBS series) and later Technothrill.
Aside from the fact the fact that no-one could understand “why does Justin spend so much time on the computer???”, his BBS activity produced constant tension in a household with 6 children and one phone line, as whenever Justin was using the phone, no-one else could get through or make a call, and when they tried $&^%()GH&#$!#*…. . .. … ..
justinmorrison.net
(dot com, at the time, was some other Justin in Canada, who never would sell me the domain) started – I don’t remember when – as primarily a place to doodle with HTML, since certainly no one had a reason to look at my website, at the time.
Flash forward and this website has been running WordPress since, oh, probably 2007-ish
I keep up a few other presences on the social medias:
Facebook Profile
Instagram @justindances
Twitter Feed
LinkedIn Profile
Flickr Photostream (dormant)
Dance Bio
Here’s a short bio pertaining to dance that’s been accreting and following Justin around for years, CV is here.
Notable collaborations in dance include the work of Pavel Zustiak, Sara Shelton Mann, Hope Mohr Dance Company, AVYK, Christine Bonansea, Leslie Seiters, Kara Miller, Katie Duck, whom he toured and performed with from 2004, the Amsterdam based MAGPIE Music Dance Company, Wally Cardona, Diego Piñon, and others.
While living in Amsterdam Justin was a frequent guest teacher at the Amsterdam School for the Arts, the SNDO: School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam), Rotterdam Dance Academy, and ArtEZ (Arnhem).
In 2014 Justin was invited as guest Professor of Dance in the Choreography department of K-Arts, Korea National University of Arts (KNUA), in Seoul.
Since 2016 Justin has served as Lecturer in Dance at San Diego State University
Justin leads workshops and classes in Videography, Dancefilm Production, Digital Production for Dance, Performative Zoom (forthcoming in 2022), GYST (Getting Your Sh*t Together) for GMail, Contemporary Dance Technique, Modern Dance, Contact Improvisation, Instant Composition for Performance (aka: Improvisation), Choreography, and Yoga.
Curiosity for all aspects of the live arts has lead Justin to study dance, theater, music, and somatic approaches to movement with diverse teachers and practitioners, including the brilliant Kathryn Irey in San Diego.
