AUDREY JOHNSON

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Education

 

BFA in Dance with Honors

2013 - 2017  Wayne State University

Maggie Allesee Talent Scholar, University Presidential Scholar

 

Additional Training

2020 Moving Alchemy/Interim Spaces with Sara Shelton Mann, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, CA

2019 FRESH Festival, San Francisco, CA

2017  Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Summer Workshop NYC, NY

2017  Gaga Workshop, Los Angeles, CA

2016  American Dance Festival, Durham, NC

2015  Gaga Workshop, NYC, NY

2015  Bates Dance Festival, Lewiston, ME

2011 - 2015  Complexions Contemporary Ballet Summer Intensive, Detroit, MI

 

Yoga

2017  Detroit Yoga Lab: 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Detroit, MI

 

Performance

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Choreography

2022 [and then we must be] at Counterpulse, supported through Edge Residency, San Francisco, CA

2020 "towards" at FRESH Festival, BRAVA Theater, San Francisco, CA

2019 "towards" at Arab American National Museum, presented by Daring Dances, Dearborn, MI

2019  “towards is no longer a direction” at FROLIC, Queering Dance Festival, Berkeley, CA

2019  [opening] at Sidewalk Arts Festival and at Detroit Dance Exchange, Detroit, MI

2019  QUEER TIME TRAVEL x [opening] in residency at 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA

2018  “How to Stop Crying When You’re Angry: redirecting flow” at Women’s Work, Boll Theatre, Detroit, MI

2017  “we’re gonna fall off the face of the earth” at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2016  “Of Understanding (exuberance)” at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

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Professional Performance and Collaborations (selected)

2019 - present GERALDCASELDANCE: Company Dancer, Artistic Director: Gerald Casel, San Francisco, CA

     Not About Race Dance - SF Premiere 2021, New York City Premiere 2022

     SF Trolley Dances - 2019

      Red Culebra - Let us Speak Frog at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts - 2022

2019  “Meditation in Movement” by Gabriela Sans (visual artist), Emergent Landscapes, Oakland, CA

2019  “Upwelling” by Amelia Nommenson, Vetiver, Oakland, CA

2019  “/soft/c” by Stephanie Hewett, CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA

2015 - 2018  Harge Dance Stories: Company Dancer, Artistic Director: Jennifer Harge, Detroit, MI

     mourn and never tire - 2015, 2016

     the (her)stories project - 2016, 2017

     FEDS WATCHING - 2018

2017  “Souci de Soi: AUDREY JOHNSON” a durational performance project with Biba Bell

     Wayne State University, Detroit, MI,  Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis, MO

2016  “It’s Now. It’s Never.” by Dafi Altabeb, American Dance Festival Footprints, Durham, NC

2014 - 2017  LaMarre and Dancers: Dance Collaborator, Artistic Director: Lisa LaMarre, Detroit, MI

2014  “GERME” by Stephanie Batten Bland, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

 

Film and Video Performance

2018 “Splintered” music video by Aisha Badru (Vocal Artist), and Keenan Wetzal (Director), Detroit, MI

2017 “UNDONE” by Carlos Funn, Moving 24fps festival, Detroit, MI

 

Teaching

2021 California State University Sacramento, Guest Artist Residency, CA

2019- 2020 Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, weekly adult improvisation, Berkeley, CA

2017 - 2019  Collective Sweat Detroit, all levels and professional contemporary movement, Detroit, MI

2019  2727 California Street, all levels QUEER TIME TRAVEL movement workshops, Berkeley, CA

2016 - 2018  The Zone Dance Center LLC, modern and contemporary ages 8 - 17, Southfield, MI

2017 - 2018  Elite Dance Force, modern, ballet, jazz, yoga, ages 6 - 18, Canton, MI

2015  Wayne State University Dance Workshop Winter Intensive, contemporary and improvisation, Detroit, MI

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Residencies

2022 Edge Residency, Counterpulse San Francisco, CA

2020 Emerging Artist in Residence, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley, CA

2019  Artist in Residence, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA