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: Research
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!
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)
Intermedia: Who Has Control?
“Writing in 1966, the American artist, poet and publisher Dick Higgins looked back on recent developments in art and, challenging the legacy of abstraction and expressionism…, noted the emergence during the same period of what he called ‘intermedia’ art, a hybrid form that involved ‘the dialectic between media’, and that was the result of keeping…
Salsa’s Sexuality: Rooted in Racism
This paper reflects my research from before grad school, but it feels relevant to my current research of power structures and stereotypes. Salsa is raging with popularity throughout the world, from Harlem to Bangladesh, people meet, join in rhythm, and dance the night away. Yet, this energetic, enthralling form of dance is often misunderstood and…
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…
Brianna Rae Johnson 