

Jill Homan Randall is a dancer, teacher, and arts administrator. Her career path and
artistic pursuits have strongly been shaped by participating in
the Service-Learning
Scholars Program at the University of Utah, and helping to develop the first
service-learning course in their modern dance department in 1996 with Professor
Phyllis Haskell. Jill received the Modern Dance Department’s Community Service
Award in 1996.
Over the past 10 years, Jill has taught dance extensively in K-12 public schools in
the San Francisco Bay Area. She was the Director of Education for the Lincoln Center
Institute Program at the Julia Morgan Center for
the Arts from 2004-2006, and is
currently the Assistant Director at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley. Jill is
Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Dance IS Festival, a multigenerational festival
that brings together high school dance groups, college dance departments, and
professional choreographers to dialogue and perform together.
Active in the dance community, Jill served on the California Dance Education
Association’s board for 5 years, and the board of Dancers’ Group for 3 years.
Jill was on the advisory committee for the Cal State University East Bay (formerly
CS Hayward) service-learning program from 2004-2007, and recently served on its
strategic planning committee in winter/spring 2007.
Jill’s other credits include performing with Nina Haft & Company, Martt Lawrence,
Paufve Dance, Dana Lawton, and Alisa Rasera. Jill’s writing has appeared in In Dance
and Teaching Artist Journal, as well as some of the dance education guides for “Spark”
on KQED public television in San Francisco.