
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
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
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
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
photo: BMBO Creations