Janet Lilly

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| name = Janet Lilly

| image = Janet Lilly.jpg

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| office1 = Director of the UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Dance

| term_start1 = 2011

| term_end1 = present

| predecessor1 = Jan Van Dyke

| successor1 =

| office2 = Chair of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Department of Dance

| term_start2 = 2005

| term_end2 = 2009

| predecessor2 =

| successor2 =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|8|15|mf=y}}

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| alma_mater = New York University
University of Michigan

| occupation = dancer, choreographer, yogi, professor

}}

Janet Lilly (born August 15, 1957) is an American modern dancer and choreographer.{{cite web|url=http://attakkalarirepertory.blogspot.com/2009/05/janet-lilly-choreographic-approaches.html|title=Attakkalari Repertory Company|author=Repertory – Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts|website=Attakkalarirepertory.blogspot.com|date=19 May 2009 }}[http://north-carolina-employees.findthedata.com/l/134451/Janet-Lilly] {{dead link|date=March 2019}} She was a principal dancer for Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane's company from 1983 to 1991.{{cite web|url=https://pittsburghcrosscurrents.wordpress.com/tag/janet-lilly/|title=Janet Lilly – CrossCurrents|website=Wordpress.com}} She currently serves as the director of the UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. From 2012 to 2014 she was the president of the Board of Directors of Iyengar Yoga National United States Association.{{cite web|url=https://iynaus.org/yoga-samachar/fall-2010winter-2011/letter-president|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919001721/http://iynaus.org/yoga-samachar/fall-2010winter-2011/letter-president|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 19, 2011|title=Letter from the President|website=Iynaus.org}}{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/bks-iyengars-influence-us-yoga-studios-flows/story?id=25055869|title=B.K.S. Iyengar's Influence on US Yoga Studios Flows On|author=|work=ABC News}}

Early life

Lilly grew up in Iowa City, Iowa and graduated from Iowa City West High School in 1975.

Dance

Lilly graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in dance. She was a principal dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 1983 until 1991.{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20120862,00.html|title=Bill T. Jones Choreographs An Anguished Tribute to His Late Partner, a Victim of AIDS|website=People.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/15/arts/review-dance-bill-t-jones-arnie-zane-company.html|title=Review/Dance; Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Company|first=Jennifer|last=Dunning|date=15 May 1988|access-date=18 March 2019|website=The New York Times}}{{cite web|url=https://pittsburghcrosscurrents.wordpress.com/tag/janet-lilly/|title=Janet Lilly - CrossCurrents|website=Pittsburghcrosscurrents.wordpress.com|access-date=18 March 2019}} She also worked as a master teacher, rehearsal director, and choreographic assistant for the company.{{cite web|url=http://www.newyorklivearts.org/download/engage-licensing-baldwin-on-DMan.pdf|title=D"Man&in&the&Waters: Reflections,!Observations,!Histories by!Neil!Baldwin|website=Newyorklivearts.org|access-date=18 March 2019}} She went on to attend the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance for her graduate degree, graduating summa cum laude in 1992.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b0sJAQAAMAAJ&q=janet+lilly&pg=RA1-PA15|title=Music at Michigan|date=18 March 1992|publisher=UM Libraries|page=15|access-date=18 March 2019|via=Google Books}} Lilly taught at the Peck School of Art's Department of Dance at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee for fifteen years and served as the Dance Department chair from 2005 to 2009. In 2011 she joined the faculty of the UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, succeeding Jan Van Dyke as the Dance Department chair.{{cite web|url=http://performingarts.uncg.edu/bios/janet-lilly|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315103308/http://performingarts.uncg.edu/bios/janet-lilly|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 15, 2013|title=Faculty – UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance|website=Uncg.edu}}{{cite web|url=http://www.music.umich.edu/muse/2013/spring/Janet-Lilly.html|title=Janet Lilly|website=Umich.edu|access-date=2015-05-15|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191152/http://www.music.umich.edu/muse/2013/spring/Janet-Lilly.html|url-status=dead}} In 2016, the Department of Dance became the School of Dance with the creation of the UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts, with Lilly serving as director of the school. Lilly also serves on the Commission on Accreditation of the National Association of Schools of Dance.

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2008–2009 Fulbright Lecturer Award{{cite web|url=https://nasd.arts-accredit.org/about/officers-commissioners-committees/commission-on-accreditation/janet-lilly/|title=Janet Lilly|website=Nasd.arts-accredit.org|access-date=18 March 2019}}
2001 National Endowment of the Arts Creation and Planning Grant

Yoga

Lilly began studying Iyengar Yoga in 1992 while a student in graduate school, where she studied with Laurie Blakeney at the Ann Arbor School of Yoga in Michigan. She has been teaching since 1995. She has studied at the Iyengar Institute in Pune, India under B. K. S. Iyengar seven times.{{cite web|url=https://iynaus.org/announcement/yogacharya-bks-iyengar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121601/https://iynaus.org/announcement/yogacharya-bks-iyengar|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2016|title=Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar|website=Iynaus.org}} She was granted a four-month residency at the University of Pune. From 2012 to 2014 she was the president of the Iyengar National United States Association.{{cite web|url=https://www.triadyoga.com/instructors.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031211085105/http://triadyoga.com/instructors.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 11, 2003|title=Class Instructors|website=Triadyoga.com}}{{cite web|url=http://theconfluencecountdown.com/2014/08/17/bks-iyengar-health-update-yoga-guru-put-on-kidney-dialysis/|title=BKS Iyengar health update: Yoga guru put on kidney dialysis|work=The Confluence Countdown}} She teaches yoga at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and at Triad Yoga in Greensboro.{{cite web|url=https://www.triadyoga.com/instructors.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031211085105/http://triadyoga.com/instructors.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 11, 2003|title=Class Instructors|website=Triadyoga.com|access-date=18 March 2019}}