Who's Who

Jill Sonke-Henderson has been an Artist-in-Residence with Shands Arts in Medicine since 1994. She is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UF Center for the Arts in Healthcare Research and Education, and is on the faculty of the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida. Within the AIM program, Jill works with patients at the bedside, coordinates performing arts programs including AIM Together, and runs the Traffic Art and Dance Exchange and movement classes for women with and recovering from cancer.

Jill is active in research, curriculum and program development at UF, serves as vice president on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, and is a frequent presenter, consultant, and guest artist at universities, conferences, hospitals, and festivals throughout the United States and abroad.

She has been a principle dancer and soloist with Lori Belilove & Company and a guest performer and choreographer with Dance Alive! and Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theatre. She is a soloist and regisseur of the historic works of Isadora Duncan as well as a recognized teacher of the Duncan and Horton techniques.

Jill is the recipient of a New Forms Florida Fellowship Award, an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the State of Florida, a 2001 Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), a UF Internationalizing the Curriculum Award, and over forty five grant awards for her programs and research at the University of Florida and Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics.