Dr. Philip Johnston trained with Helen Lewis in Belfast. He performed and choreographed in Europe for fifteen years before relocating to the United States in 1992. In London, New York, Oslo and Copenhagen Philip danced in original works by internationally acclaimed choreographers. He has performed extensively throughout the world in modern dance festivals and appeared on film for the London Dance Umbrella, Channel 4, BBC Television and NRK-Norway. He was the Artistic Director for The Norwegian Modern Dance Company which toured throughout Scandinavia, Germany, The United Kingdom and Ireland. In London he studied with the renowned dance historian Belinda Quirey, specializing in Renaissance and Baroque dance research and reconstruction. As a soloist Philip performed in choreographic reconstructions of Lully, Rameau, Handel, Couperin and Purcell divertissements and operas with the English Bach Festival in London at Covent Garden and The Royal Festival Hall, the Théâtre de Champs Elysées in Paris, L’Opéra de Louis XV in Versailles, the Théâtre de Monte Carlo in Monaco and at the Athens Summer Festival at the Herod Atticus Theatre. Philip has held adjunct, guest and faculty positions at: The University of Surrey, The Inner-London Education Authority, The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, The Norwegian State Ballet School, Dansens Hus (Denmark), Joseph Holmes Dance Company (Chicago), Dance Theatre Rollo (Finland), The Dance Society of Malaysia (Malaysia), The Belfast Modern Dance Company, Illinois State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Philip’s choreographic work has been performed by Janet Smith and Dancers (U. K.), The Norwegian Modern Dance Company (Norway), The Belfast Modern Dance Company (Ireland), and in the United States by, Illinois Opera Theatre, Dorian Opera, Concerto Urbano, Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana and Illinois State Dance Theatre. He has received choreographic and dance fellowships from: The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The British Council, The Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists, The Norwegian Culture Council, The London School of Contemporary Dance, The Skinners Guild of London and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Charles and Harriet Luckman Undergraduate Distinguished Teaching Award was awarded to Philip in 1997 for his teaching in the Department of Dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Philip received undergraduate degrees from the University of Ulster and The London School of Contemporary Dance. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign he received his Master of Fine Arts in Dance and a Ph. D. in Theatre History. Philip is on the dance faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and teaches the Alexander Technique to acting majors in the Theatre Department. He maintains a private Alexander Technique teaching practice in Champaign.