About Batt
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Batt Johnson is an Argentine tango dancer/choreographer and college professor. He has worked as a TV and milonga host, researcher, writer and producer on a world wide tango radio show called Espresso Tango Radio. For many years, he also worked as a communication consultant, award-winning actor, award-winning music radio DJ/producer and writer.
He wrote a monthly column for ReporTango Magazine and is the author of three published books on subjects ranging from acting and public speaking to jazz. He wrote the liner notes for many professional tango musician's CDs; a music writer and host for Only One New York, a weekly television show on PBS and was a national music video host and writer for MTV’s VH-1 Music Television.
He studied tango in both North and South America with some of the most influential and celebrated tango dancers and teachers of our time. Batt taught in dance schools and many outdoor events, directed, acted, wrote, co-wrote and danced in tango plays, tango films and has organized milongas.
He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree is in Social Theory and Media Studies. His Master of Arts Degree is in Communication Arts & Sciences with a focus in television.
Batt Johnson now teaches tango occasionally but considers himself to be a lifelong student of tango dance and tango music and tonight, Batt will go dancing.
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Batt Johnson has a deep passion for music and dancing. He grew up in a household where music was always playing. His two older sisters taught him to dance when he was very young.
He started dance studies many years later as an adult in 1997 and he has not stopped dancing and studying dance since. He studied in both North and South America with over one hundred and seventy of the most influential tango dancers, tango teachers and tango performers of our time including Osvaldo Zotto (RIP), Guillermina Quiroga, Gustavo Naveida, Julio Balmaceda, Carlos Gavito (RIP), Jorge Torres, Lorena Ermocida, Omar Vega (RIP) and many more.
Other major influences are Maria Jose Sosa, Natacha Poberaj, Junior Cervila, Rebecca Shulman, Oliver Kolker, Gabriel Missé, Maria Elena Ybarra and Diego Escobar. Batt has also performed with well-known visiting professional tango dancers from Argentina including with the Octavio Brunetti Orchestra.
Batt Johnson taught tango in New York City at the Dardo Galletto Studios; Piel Canela Latin Arts Dance Center; Tango On The Square; Central Park Tango; Lafayette Grill, NY; Shut Up and Dance Studios, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and The School of Visual and Performing Arts, Stroudsburg, PA.
He wrote the play "Tango Floor Gender Wars"; co-wrote and directed the play “Tango du Jour”; co-wrote, danced and acted in the play “Del Tingo Al Tango"; acted and danced in the film “The Challenger” with Silvina Valz which was part of the New York Tango and Film Festival; he was featured in the documentary film “New York Tango"; performed voice-overs for the stage show “Tango Connections” and for many professional tango teacher's instructional videos.
For several seasons he danced, hosted, acted, conceived and wrote for The Tango Zone Dance Company which performed in New York every summer for five years and at the Edmonton, Canada International Theatre Fringe Festival, the largest in all of North America.
Batt Johnson created, voiced and produced numerous radio specials on musicians and their instruments. He is currently a host, researcher, writer and producer on a world wide tango radio show called Espresso Tango Radio with internationally acclaimed and Grammy Award-winning bandoneon player and composer, Hector Del Curto.
Batt also created, produced and hosted female tango fashion shows and a benefit to raise money for tango dancing children who happen to be without sight.
He was chosen to be the Official Master of Ceremonies of the 7th USA Tango Championship Competition as part of the 13th Annual New York City Tango Festival.
Batt Johnson is an award-winning actor who has worked as a professional radio DJ, television broadcaster, college professor and communication consultant for business executives, lawyers, doctors, TV show hosts and professional athletes. As a media trainer some of his clients include the NBA (National Basketball Association), USTA (United States Tennis Association) and the United States Air Force.
He has a BA in Social Theory and Media Studies and an MA in Communication Arts & Sciences with a focus in television. Batt is a professor and taught public speaking at New York University for 16 years; radio, voice-overs and public speaking at the New York Institute of Technology since 1999; radio and oral communication at Mercy College, public speaking at Cornell University for eight years and acting at the Weist-Barron School of Television for 18 years.
Batt wrote the CD liner notes (the information inside a CD cover) for many professional tango musicians including Argentinian musicians Hector Del Curto, Fernando Otero, Gustavo Casenave (Uruguay) and Costa Rican bass player Rodrigo Saenz. He also wrote a monthly column for ReporTango Magazine, an international guide to Argentine tango. He is the author of three additional published books on subjects ranging from acting and public speaking to jazz. His other books to be published are a media training manual for professional athletes, a book of quotes for men and two books on Argentine tango.
He was a writer for Japan’s Swing Journal Jazz Magazine; music critic for The Kansas City Star Newspaper; national music video host and writer for VH-1 Music Television (MTV networks); music writer and co-host for Only One New York, a weekly magazine formatted television show on PBS; co-host and writer on Campus America (NCTV) and a home shopping host and writer on Q2 television (QVC Network).
Batt also studied music and music theory at the John Theis School of Music, Kansas City, Missouri; Big Dude’s Music Studio, Kansas City, Missouri; Ed Simon’s (brother of Paul Simon) Guitar Study Center, New York and The Sounds of Joy Music Studios, New York.
Although Batt Johnson now teaches tango, he considers himself to be a lifelong student of the dance and tonight, Batt will go dancing.
THEATER ________________________________________________________________
Find Your Way Home
Deep Are the Roots The Zoo Story A Moon for the Misbegotten Del Tingo Al Tango Tango du Jour The Tango Zone Tango Floor Gender Wars |
Weston
Brett Jerry Hogan Bouncer/Dancer Director MC, Commercial actor Tango Floor Gender Wars |
Actors Playhouse
Actors Playhouse Actors Playhouse Prince Theater Wings Theater Poet's Den Theater 101 Studio Theater YSBD Studio |
FILM_____________________________________________________________________
Game Day
"Q" An Angel For Your Solitude |
Principal
Featured Principal |
Steve Klein, Dir.
Larry Cohen, Dir. Ricardo Elizondo, Dir. |
Independent feature
Independent feature Independent feature |
TELEVISION_______________________________________________________________
The Gastineau Girls
One Life to Live Love, Sydney The Other Woman |
E! Entertainment TV
ABC-TV NBC-TV CBS-TV Movie |
TELEVISION HOST________________________________________________________
Q2 Television
VH-1 Only One New York Campus America Infomercial |
National host
National VJ music host Co-host, anchor Co-host, anchor National and international host |
QVC Networks
MTV Networks WNYC-TV PBS NCTV Network Synchronal Corp. |
COMMERCIALS_________________________________________________________
Reel available: NY Film & Video Award Winner, Mic Award Winner
Reel available: NY Film & Video Award Winner, Mic Award Winner
CORPORATE FILM_________________________________________________________
Prudential Insurance, IBM, Sony, American Express (Int’l Film & TV Festival Award Winner), Mastercard, NYNEX, Republic National Bank, Citibank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Merrill Lynch, Prudential Securities, Price Waterhouse, Computer Associates, AT&T, Gulfstream Aeronautical (Int’l Film & TV Festival Award Winner), Continental Airlines, Xerox, Hoffman-LaRoche, American Cyanamid, Exxon, Bristol Meyers-Squibb, Merck & Co; Parke-Davis, Lucent Technologies, Oppenheimer Funds, Paine-Webber, Salomon Smith Barney.
EDUCATION - TRAINING____________________________________________________
Actors Playhouse: with Ken Cooke
HB Studios: with Edward Morehouse
Weist-Barron School of Television: Commercials
Reed, Sweeny, Reed - The Teachers: Commercials
Bill Wade School of Radio & Television Broadcasting: First Class FCC License
BA Social Theory/Media Studies, MA Communication Arts
SPECIAL SKILLS Dialect and character voices, ballroom and Latin dance, Argentine tango
RADIO HOST_____________________________________________________
WQCD-FM, New York: Smooth Jazz (CD 101.9)
WQEW-AM, New York: American Popular Standards
SONY WORLDWIDE RADIO NETWORK, New York: Smooth Jazz
WBLS-FM, New York: Urban Contemporary
WQCD-FM, New York: Smooth Jazz (CD 101.9)
WLTW-FM, New York: Adult Contemporary (Lite FM)
WKHK-FM, New York: Country (Kick FM)
WRVR-FM, New York: Jazz
WNBC-AM, New York: Pop/Rock
KCMO-AM, Kansas City, Mo: Pop/Rock research director
WHYI-FM, Miami, Fla.: Pop/Rock
KGFJ-AM, LA, CA. Urban Contemporary program director, research director
WKTQ-AM, Pittsburgh, Pa. Pop/Rock program research director
KRIZ-AM, Phoenix, Az. PopRock music director, research director
KUPD-AM/FM, Phoenix, Az. Pop/Rock
KCBQ-AM, San Diego, Ca. Pop/Rock asst. production dir., public service dir.
KPRI-FM, (KGB-FM) San Diego, Ca. Rock
KBKB-FM, San Diego, Ca. Pop/Rock DJ,newscaster
Prudential Insurance, IBM, Sony, American Express (Int’l Film & TV Festival Award Winner), Mastercard, NYNEX, Republic National Bank, Citibank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Merrill Lynch, Prudential Securities, Price Waterhouse, Computer Associates, AT&T, Gulfstream Aeronautical (Int’l Film & TV Festival Award Winner), Continental Airlines, Xerox, Hoffman-LaRoche, American Cyanamid, Exxon, Bristol Meyers-Squibb, Merck & Co; Parke-Davis, Lucent Technologies, Oppenheimer Funds, Paine-Webber, Salomon Smith Barney.
EDUCATION - TRAINING____________________________________________________
Actors Playhouse: with Ken Cooke
HB Studios: with Edward Morehouse
Weist-Barron School of Television: Commercials
Reed, Sweeny, Reed - The Teachers: Commercials
Bill Wade School of Radio & Television Broadcasting: First Class FCC License
BA Social Theory/Media Studies, MA Communication Arts
SPECIAL SKILLS Dialect and character voices, ballroom and Latin dance, Argentine tango
RADIO HOST_____________________________________________________
WQCD-FM, New York: Smooth Jazz (CD 101.9)
WQEW-AM, New York: American Popular Standards
SONY WORLDWIDE RADIO NETWORK, New York: Smooth Jazz
WBLS-FM, New York: Urban Contemporary
WQCD-FM, New York: Smooth Jazz (CD 101.9)
WLTW-FM, New York: Adult Contemporary (Lite FM)
WKHK-FM, New York: Country (Kick FM)
WRVR-FM, New York: Jazz
WNBC-AM, New York: Pop/Rock
KCMO-AM, Kansas City, Mo: Pop/Rock research director
WHYI-FM, Miami, Fla.: Pop/Rock
KGFJ-AM, LA, CA. Urban Contemporary program director, research director
WKTQ-AM, Pittsburgh, Pa. Pop/Rock program research director
KRIZ-AM, Phoenix, Az. PopRock music director, research director
KUPD-AM/FM, Phoenix, Az. Pop/Rock
KCBQ-AM, San Diego, Ca. Pop/Rock asst. production dir., public service dir.
KPRI-FM, (KGB-FM) San Diego, Ca. Rock
KBKB-FM, San Diego, Ca. Pop/Rock DJ,newscaster
Tango Intoxication may be purchased at Amazon.com