Jill Green is an American dance educator and scholar who originated the Social Somatic Theory.
Green served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was co-editor of Dance Research.
[5][6] Green is the originator of the Social Somatic Theory and is a master teacher of Kinetic Awareness, a movement approach created by Elaine Summers.
[11][12] In 2017 Green was awarded the Outstanding Dance Education Research Award at the National Dance Education Conference and was invited to be the keynote speaker at the International Symposium of the Performing Arts in Brazil.
[5] In 2019, while Janet Lilly was on sabbatical from the UNCG School of Dance, Green served as the interim director.