Meet choreographer, acting coach, producer, director JoAnn Jansen, and hear her work on Avatar and other films, and her storied career starting from her time as a nontraditional student at Ohio University. She led her own dance company in New York before becoming a film choreographer and acting coach for some of today’s biggest stars, including Patrick Swayze, Reese Witherspoon, Antonio Banderas, and Jennifer Aniston. Frequent collaborator John Travolta says of JoAnn, “She is like a chameleon. She can cross-reference dances throughout history and come up with just the right movement that suits the character and the film. She is brilliant.”

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