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Louis Johnson (b. 1931) designed the costumes and created the choreography for the 1981 production of his Fontessa and Friends for AAADT. Johnson originally studied dance and appeared with the New York City Ballet in Jerome Robbins’s Ballade (1952) and in numerous Broadway productions, including House of Flowers, Hallelujah Baby, and both the stage (1955) and film (1958) versions of Bob Fosse’s Damn Yankees.