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…
Tag: Dance
Pie Equals Square (July 27-29, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN)
Over a year ago, Gerry Timm, a retired medical engineering professor and dance lover, gathered a choreographer, composer and dancers to create an evening of movement, music and media. I will be dancing along side Tazz Germaine Lindsay, Leslie O’Neill, Doug Hooker, Rachel Clark, and Gerry himself. Choreography is by Paula Mann and sounds design is…
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…
Cross-Viewing Audiences Allowed Some Others In
In an effort to understand the American identity and Other identities during the modern era, I have been researching the experiences of two choreographers who are in the modern dance canon against the experiences of Lebanese American immigrants. Here are some of my findings so far. (Note that I have included my entire works cited…
Rupture Front (April 5-7, 2018)
3/30/17 update: The OSU Spring Concert is next weekend, and I’m excited to share Rupture Front. This Duet explores slipping and locked boundaries of identity, and wonders what erupts through the cracks in our crust. According to the United States Geological Survey, a Rupture Front is “the instantaneous boundary between the slipping and locked parts of a fault during…
Brianna Rae Johnson 