CHOREOGRAPHER FOR HIRE

With over 20 years of professional experience, The Bell House's Executive & Artistic Director, Rachel Bruce Johnson's choreography has been described as "often interested in the lightness and weight of the body...in Johnson's hands a masterpiece" [about Avelut, Alicia Chesser, Urban Tulsa Weekly].  Johnson's choreography/filmography work has been 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 Creations in Studio K, New Genre Festival, American Collegiate Dance Festival, Living Arts Council of Tulsa, {254}-Dance-Fest, Rogue Dance Festival and various other multi-disciplinary venues.  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.  Ms. Johnson holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Performance and Choreography from Texas Woman's University in Denton, TX. She is particularly interested in performance process and in creating dance work for stage.

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

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​​Repertoire by Rachel Bruce Johnson
Scarlet Ibis
Dive
White After Labor Day
Last Thread
She Drew a Picture of a Whale
Avelut
Beat of a Different Heart
Do Not Wake Love
In Company
Ironice
The Lord’s Prayer
Form-Transform
Moment of Inertia
Self-Portrait (co-choreograph with L. Brooke Schlecte)
Prepare the Veil
Standing at the Edge
Vice Grip
Fences (co-choreograph with Alicia Chesser)
Imprint
Game of Risk
Broke No. 1: The Golden Child (co-choreograph with L. Brooke Schlecte)
Broke No. 2: The Other Sister
Broke No. 4: Silver Spoons (co-choreograph with Jessica Vokoun)
Shelter
Quiver 
Field Study No. 82 (improvography with Alicia Chesser)
Off...Spring (consultant to choreographer L. Brooke Schlecte)
Bag Children
Jeremy: A Way With Hands, 7 Doorways\7 Stories
Descent: The Neal Hutto Story, 7 Doorways\7 Stories (improvography with Megan McKown)
Off...Spring: Along Came Mrs. Alkali (choreographic collaborator to L. Brooke Schlecte)