Working with students from the Department of Theatre and Dance at Winona State University, Micah Speller (Composer), Ben Serviss (Web designer and Coder), Claire Melbourne (Coder), and Kathryn Nusa Logan (Dramaturg), we created a screendance and website called interbody.dance! While you’re on the site, see its inner workings (thoughts) by right-clicking (or control-click in a…
Category: Creative Experiments
Vantage Being
Vantage Being‘s performances at the Urban Arts Space are going well! The piece combines an interactive video installation, live dance performance, and localized soundscapes to invite viewers to explore and making choices. As audience members move among live performers and interact with video installations they choose which parts of the multiple concurrent live and video-based…
Vasifis, Oxipit, Unknown A, and Sylv
The performers, Sydney Samson, Abby Koskinas, Caitlyn Higley, Kara Komarnitsky, and I created this quartet together. Each performer imagined and became their unique creature. (Please excuse the jarring edits–the piece was performed in the round and videoed from opposite corners.)
Experiential Window System
This interactive window came on the heels of a video installation that I made for the Hopkin’s Hall Gallery, State of Swing. Making this, I considered reality’s complexity, and the filtering and framing we do to make meaning for ourselves. Two videos play simultaneously, and filters hang on a pedestal for viewers to pick up and look…
State of Swing (Hopkins Hall Gallery Oct 15 – Nov 29)
What you need to know before you watch: I created this film for exhibition in a gallery show called Cinema Expanded. It will be in the Hopkins Hall Gallery from Monday, October 15 to Thursday, November 29. The projector sits on a pedestal on the gallery, shining this film onto a white wall. Colored gels (or filters) hang…
Contra: Dance & Conflict Paper Presentation
Thanks to the Ray Travel Award, the Arts & Humanities Small Grants and the OSU Department of Dance Semester Funding Initiative, I have just returned from the 2018 Dance Studies Association conference, a meeting of international dance scholars and practitioners in Valletta, Malta. My paper compared the experiences of the Syrian-Lebanese population with those of…
Portal’s Edge
We took some of the phrase material from Rupture Front unto the mud, and made a dance film that stands alone. Thank again to Abby Koskinas and Sydney Samson, for their eagerness to try anything!
Two Video
Claire Melbourne and I had a lot of fun dancing Two by Katherine Moore.
Rupture Front Video
Abby Koskinas, Sydney Samson and I proudly showed Rupture Front last weekend. According to the United States Geological Survey, a Rupture Front is “the instantaneous boundary between slipping and locked parts of a fault during and earthquake.”While creating this duet, I pondered the edges of female identity. Does identifying as female define me? Am I supposed to fit…
pour la liberté
I finished my latest dance film, pour la liberté, this week. Check it out below and leave me a comment to let me know what you think! (note: there is some nudity)
Brianna Rae Johnson 