John Toenjes is Professor, Music Director, and Co-Director of Undergraduate Education at the University of Illinois Department of Dance, and past President of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance. He has written over 30 scores for choreographers, including Lucas Hoving and Joe Goode. Since 2004, he has focused on producing computer-assisted interactive dances such as Inventions Suite (2008 Cleveland Ingenuity Festival), telematic dances such as Timings: An Internet Dance with dancers in Tokyo connected to live avatars. In 2014, he established the Laboratory for Audience Interactive Technologies (LAIT) which has designed an app system for live performance called “Mosho.” Dances that integrate Mosho include Critical Mass (2017), and Alternate Reality (2018). He started researching game structures for dance, creating works such as SoundWave Surfing (2020), and in the last few years, a new VR dance adventure game called “Master Dancer.”