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BIORACHEL BRUCE JOHNSON is the founder and Executive Director of Bell House Arts, Inc., a collaborative dance and art cooperative dedicated to creating opportunity for artistic exchange. Ms. Johnson’s film work is centralized around dance specifically made for the film medium. This entails considering dance and film equally in all its depth and complexity to fuse the two mediums into the genre of dance for camera. Mrs. Johnson’s dance film work includes Deeper, we all fall down, PASSAGES, Prepare the Veil, PaperCUTS, and She Drew a Picture of a Whale. Ms. Johnson has worked as a dance performance soloist, contributing choreographer and video enthusiast for various companies across the U.S. and abroad. Her work has garnished such critical comments as “avant-garde” [Margaret Putnam, Dallas Morning News] and “excellence in kinetic artistry” [Loretta Livingston] and was included in the American College Dance Festival’s gala invitational in 2007, the National Dance Association/AAHPERD convention, Screen Door Film Festival, Tulsa Ballet's Studio K, and various other multi-disciplinary venues.She has studied with such artists as Melody Ruffin-Ward (Rhode Island College), Sarah Gamblin (Bebe Miller), Mary Williford-Shade (Mark Taylor), and Todd Rosenlieb (Erik Hawkins Dance Company). She is particularly interested in performance process and in creating work for the dance for camera genre. Ms. Johnson holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Performance and Choreography from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX and received the 2007 Outstanding Graduate Student Award. In 2009, she launched the first adjudicated dance choreography festival in Tulsa, OK; EXCHANGE CHOREOGRAPHY FESTIVAL. Ms. Johnson also performs and choreographs with Out On a Limb Dance Company in Waco, TX. She has served as adjunct professor in the Dance Program at Oral Roberts University and currently serves as a dance committee member for the Living Arts Council of Tulsa.
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Professional Affiliations:
Hardesty Arts Center
National Dance Educators Organization
Dance Films Association
Living Arts Council of Tulsa
Women of Compassion
Dance Council of North Texas
National Dance Educators Organization
Dance Films Association
Living Arts Council of Tulsa
Women of Compassion
Dance Council of North Texas