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Curriculum Vitae | Rachel Bruce Johnson
​Tulsa, OK

RACHEL BRUCE JOHNSON
johnsonrac@gmail.com
TULSA, OK
(918) 549-1231

EDUCATION
Ongoing classes and workshops
2007 Master of Fine Arts in Dance, Texas Woman’s University
1999 Bachelor of Arts in Dance, Old Dominion University, Magna Cum Laude, Photography minor
 
EMPLOYMENT
2007- Present Executive & Artistic Director, Bell House Arts, Inc.
2007-Present              Founding Member & Contributing Choreographer, Out On A Limb Dance Company
2008-2012                  Company Member & Contributing Choreographer, Living Water Dance Company
2000-Present              Freelance Choreographer/Performer/Teacher

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2015                            Adjunct Faculty, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK 


2007-2011                  Adjunct Faculty
, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK 


2006-2007                  Graduate Research Assistant

, Department of Dance in exchange with Unitec University, Auckland, NZ, representing
                                    Texas Woman’s University 


 
2005-2007                  Graduate Teacher of Record
, Beginner to Advanced Modern Dance Technique
, Online Course Assistant

2004-2007 Publicity Coordinator
                                    Texas Woman’s University, Department of Dance


1999                            Teaching Assistant, Old Dominion University, Department of Dance

 
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
Dance History I & II
Beginning through advanced Modern dance technique, beginning Jazz technique, choreography ensemble
Choreographic Studies courses - all levels, Oral Roberts University dance major courses

Beginning through advanced Modern dance technique, Texas Woman’s University dance major courses
Beginning through intermediate ballet technique, Texas Woman’s University dance major courses

Teaching Assistant for doctoral online courses and dance major’s choreography courses, Texas Woman’s University


Teaching Assistant for the Dance and Its Audience course, Old Dominion University under Todd Rosenlieb, artistic director of the Erik Hawkins Dance Company
 
ADMINISTRATIVE AND SERVICE
2007-present              Out On a Limb Dance Company
2009-present              Living Arts Council of Tulsa, New Dance Committee
2007-2012                  Living Water Dance Company
2004-2007                  Technique Committee, Texas Woman’s University
                                    Undergrad placement into major technique courses
                                    Assessment procedures and execution
                                    Academic Honesty/Dishonesty issues
                                    DanceWorks, TWU Repertoire Company, A.D.: Mary Williford-Shade
                                    Recruitment, Lecture Demonstrations, Community Outreach
2005                            Inlet Dance Theatre, A.D.: Bill Wade, Arts Management and Artistic Director’s internship
 
 
SELF-PRODUCED CONCERTS
 
2016   EXCHANGE CHOREOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
 
2015   FRACTURED EYE, Tulsa SummerStage Fringe Festival, Tulsa, OK, June 26th & 27th
A shared dance concert of works presented by The Bell House & Perpetual Motion. "Frame": doors, blankets, string, and shafts of light become frames that impose on our view and capture the hidden narratives within various relationships. "Fault Line": integrates performance, film technology and aerial apparatuses using earthquakes as a metaphor reflecting life.
 
The Bell House’s “Frame”
Doors, blankets, string, and shafts of light become frames that impose on our view and capture the hidden narratives within various relationships. “Frame” is a way of suggesting, interrupting, focusing smaller, and expanding beyond the frame to become more than a way to simply mark boundaries. The body and space beyond the frame becomes as important as what remains within its borders. Humorous, sorrowful, and challenging.
 
Fences, choreographed and performed by Rachel Bruce Johnson & Alicia Chesser
Game of Risk, performed by Ari Christopher, Alicia Chesser, Aleks Weaver & Mona Hatter of Tulsa Modern Movement
Shelter, a solo reflection on grief
Imprint, solo reflection on our divine imprint
String Theory by Amy Morrow, performed by Amy Morrow & Rachel Meador (produced), originally commissioned in 2015 for Avant Chamber Ballet’s Women’s Choreography Project and Morrow has since distilled the narrative from a pas de quatre to a pas de deux.
 
Perpetual Motion Dance’s “Fault Line”
With a signature grace and technical ingenuity, Perpetual Motion is in its 12th season of creating original modern and aerial dance repertory that is evocative and visceral.  A recent recipient of the Mid-America Arts Alliance grant, Artistic Innovations, for their Spring 2015 concert "Fault Line", they integrate performance, film technology and aerial apparatuses using earthquakes as a metaphor for instability and unpredictable life changes.  The dancers deconstruct a wall into small geometric pieces and continue to construct and deconstruct their environments. 
 
 
2015   “Frame” at Tulsa Ballet’s Studio K, August 1st
 
“Frame” is an original concert curation featuring the choreographic works of Out On A Limb Dance Company Artistic Director, L. Brooke Schlecte, Rachel Bruce Johnson, Jessica Vokoun, and Amy Diane Morrow . Doors, blankets, string, and shafts of light become frames that impose on our view and capture the hidden narratives within various relationships. “Frame” is a way of suggesting, interrupting, focusing smaller, and expanding beyond the frame to become more than a way to simply mark boundaries. The body and space beyond the frame becomes as important as what remains within its borders. Humorous, sorrowful, and challenging. 
 
Broke Suite, a quartet in four parts, concept by L. Brooke Schlecte, selections choreographed by Rachel Bruce Johnson and Jessica Vokoun
Fences by Rachel Bruce Johnson & Alicia Chesser
String Theory by Amy Morrow, performed by Amy Morrow & Rachel Meador (produced), originally commissioned in 2015 for Avant Chamber Ballet’s Women’s Choreography Project and Morrow has since distilled the narrative from a pas de quatre to a pas de deux.
Imprint, solo reflection on our divine imprint
The Moon, a video dance based on Shelley Percy's poem "The Moon"
Shelter, a solo reflection on grief
Game of Risk, performed by Ari Christopher, Alicia Chesser, Aleks Weaver & Mona Hatter of Tulsa Modern Movement
Carry On by Amy Morrow
 
2012   EXCHANGE DANCE FESTIVAL
REVERB
Broke No. 1: Additive by L. Brooke Schlecte, performed by Out On a Limb Dance Company
Broke No. 2: Negotiations by Rachel Bruce Johnson, performed by Out On a Limb Dance Company
Games by Christie Nelson-Sala
Vice Grip by Rachel Bruce Johnson, performed by Living Water Dance Company
question in your eyes un et deux by Bethanie Head
Let Justice Roll Down by Amy McIntosh, performed by Living Water Dance Company
I Be:fore You by Christie Nelson-Sala
Sought by Jennifer Mellor Dance Project
Passage by Nina Madsen, performed by Tulsa Modern Movement
The Doorway by Kayla Zahrt

NO FRILLS
Nightcrawler by Kaleigh Sosebee
Reflex by Christie Nelson-Sala, performed by Out On a Limb Dance
I Am Her, She Is Me by Collective Force Dance Company
Fences by Alicia Chesser & Rachel Bruce Johnson
Suite Female: Parts II-VIII by Rebecca Bryant, performed by Big Rig Dance Collective
dirt.light.me. by L. Brooke Schlecte, performed by Out On a Limb Dance Company
 
2011   EXCHANGE DANCE FESTIVAL
The Quorum
Self-Portrait by L. Brooke Schlecte, performed by Out On A Limb Dance
Doppelganger by Bill Wade, Jr., performed by Inlet Dance Theatre
To Have Lived by Cristal Tiscareno, performed by Fresno Dance Collective
Until It’s Over by Amy McIntosh
Eucharistia by Amy McIntosh, performed by Living Water Dance Company
A Close Shave by Bill Wade, Jr., performed by Inlet Dance Theatre
Verse VIII (a) Where It all Begins... by Melody Ruffin-Ward, performed by Alicia Chesser & Rachel Bruce Johnson
Offaxis by Bill Wade, Jr., performed by Inlet Dance Theatre
FITS! Together by Amy Querin, performed by Fresno Dance Collective
Streetlights. People. by L. Brooke Schlecte, performed by Out On A Limb Dance
 
Exchange Dance Festival Concerts Reverb I, Reverb II, & Informal
 
2009 EXCHANGE DANCE FESTIVAL
GALA Performance
Infinite by Amy McIntosh, performed by Living Water Dance Company
She Drew a Picture of a Whale by L. Brooke Schlecte & Rachel Bruce Johnson
The New Has Come! by Amy McIntosh, performed by Living Water Dance Company
Site-specific work by Stephanie Miracle
Lobby Improvisation by Amy McIntosh, performed by Living Water Dance Company
Emerging by Amy McIntosh, performed by Living Water Dance Company
Distilled Verse No. 5 by Melody Ruffin-Ward
Last Thread by Rachel Bruce Johnson, performed by Living Water Dance Company
A Long Journey Home by L. Brooke Schlecte, performed by Out On A Limb Dance
 
Exchange Dance Festival Adjudicated Concerts #1 & #2


PRODUCTION
2010-present     
Oklahoma Dance Film Festival film reviewer and presenter
 
2016                    
Exchange Choreography Festival, Artistic & Executive Director, held at Tulsa Ballet's Studio K 
 
2015                    
SummerStage, String Theory by Amy Morrow
 
Studio K show, String Theory and Carry On by Amy Morrow
 
Dallas Dance Fest, Carry On by Amy Morrow
 
Oklahoma Dance Film Festival, Crystal Bridges, performance by Tulsa Modern Movement

2014
Living Arts Council of Tulsa “Chandelier Exhibit”
dirt.light.me. by L. Brooke Schlecte, solo performance by Sarah Newton of OoLD
 
Gaga & Countertechnique workshops with Amy Morrow and Kira Blazek
 
Creations in Studio K, RED & Game of Risk, performed by Tulsa Modern Movement
 
Oklahoma Dance Film Festival, Crystal Bridges
 
2012
Exchange Dance Festival, Artistic & Executive Director, held at Tulsa Ballet's Studio K 
Dowry of the Meek documentary screening
Confessions by Tulsa Modern Movement (sound editing)
 
2011
Exchange Dance Festival, Artistic & Executive Director, held at Holland Hall
Oklahoma Dance Film Festival presenter
 
2010
Gulf Cleanup Benefit Concert, Plano, TX, A Steep Hill by Amy Querin
 
2009
Exchange Dance Festival, Artistic & Executive Director, held at Oral Roberts University
 
 
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS
 
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)
Prepare the Veil
Standing at the Edge
Vice Grip
Fences (co-choreograph)
Imprint
Game of Risk
Broke No. 1: The Golden Child (co-choreograph)
Broke No. 2: The Other Sister
Broke No. 4: Silver Spoons (co-choreograph)
Shelter
Quiver (Negotiations)
Field Study No. 82 (improvography)
The Eternal Return: Along Came Mrs. Alkali (co-choreograph & consultant)
Bag Children
Jeremy: A Way With Hands, 7 Doorways\7 Stories
Descent: The Neal Hutto Story, 7 Doorways\7 Stories (improvography)
 
VIDEODANCE
 
She Drew a Picture of a Whale by L. Brooke Schlecte & Rachel Bruce Johnson
paperCUTS by Linda Caldwell & Rachel Bruce Johnson
Deeper by Kathryn Eurich & Rachel Bruce Johnson
Passages
we all fall down
Dive
The Marfa Project: Mapping Emptiness in the Landscape (video installation)
Untamed (video installation)
 
 
VIDEOGRAPHY
2014
Portico Dans Theatre, videography, choreography project
 
2013
The Moon, Dances Made To Order, Tulsa Edition #28
eMerge Dance Festival, Be. Now. Here. By Christina Woodrow (video)
 
2012
MacCallum High School Videodance project (premiere Oct 2012)
 
2011
Living Water Dance Company Promo Video
New Genre, Tulsa, OK, Untamed by Amy McIntosh (video installation)
 
2008
PaperCUTS
Deeper

2007
She Drew a Picture of a Whale

2006
The Marfa Project: Mapping Emptiness in the Landscape
we all fall down
PASSAGES
No Diving
 
PERFORMANCES

2016
7 Doorways / 7 Stories, Living Arts of Tulsa
Jeremy: A Way With Hands, The Story of Jeremy Lake, Director: Tony Brinkley
Descent: The Neal Hutto Story, a collaborative work by Ralph Bendel, Improvography: Rachel Bruce Johnson & Megan McKown
Fragmented Lives by Deborah Hunter
Bag Children, a duet, performed by Jessica Collier & Rachel Bruce Johnson
 
2015
 
FRACTURED EYE
Fences, solo derived from duet work entitled Fences by Rachel Bruce Johnson & Alicia Chesser
Game of Risk, performed by Ari Christopher, Alicia Chesser, Aleks Weaver & Mona Hatter of Tulsa Modern Movement
Shelter, a solo reflection on grief
Imprint, solo reflection on our divine imprint
 
FRAME
Broke Suite, a quartet in four parts, concept by L. Brooke Schlecte, selections choreographed by Rachel Bruce Johnson and Jessica Vokoun
Fences by Rachel Bruce Johnson & Alicia Chesser
Imprint, solo reflection on our divine imprint
The Moon, a video dance based on Shelley Percy's poem "The Moon"
Shelter, a solo reflection on grief
Game of Risk, performed by Ari Christopher, Alicia Chesser, Aleks Weaver & Mona Hatter of Tulsa Modern Movement
 
{254}-DANCE-FEST
Shelter, a solo reflection on grief
Quiver, solo reflection on motherhood
 
 
2014
eMerge Dance Festival, 2 Steps Forward by Jessica Vokoun
Creations in Studio K, Broke No. 1: The Golden Child by L. Brooke Schlecte
{254} dance-fest, RED & Game of Risk, performed by Tulsa Modern Movement
Oklahoma Dance Film Festival, Crystal Bridges, The Red Herring by Jessica Vokoun
 
2013
Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival, OKC, Vice Grip, Fences, & Be. Now. Here. By Christina Woodrow
eMerge Dance Festival, Tulsa, OK, Broke No. 4: Silver Spoons by Rachel Bruce Johnson & Jessica Vokoun; Untitled by Kim Keiffer, chandelier construction by Philip & Rachel Johnson
Creations in Studio K, Tulsa, OK, Vice Grip, performed by Living Water Dance Company; Imprint, performed by Alicia Chesser
 
2012
Rogue Festival, Fresno, CA, She Drew a Picture of a Whale, Standing at the Edge
Exchange Dance Festival, Tulsa, OK, Broke No. 2: The Other Sister performance by L. Brooke Schlecte, Fences
{254} dance-festival, Waco, TX, Broke No. 1: The Golden Child, Broke No. 2: The Other Sister (L. Brooke Schlecte), Self-Portrait , Let Justice Roll Down by Amy McIntosh
TuMM concert CONFESSIONS (performer), Tulsa, OK
Creations in Studio K, Avelut, performed by Living Water Dance Company
 
2011
Spontaneous Cinema/music/Dance by video sAVant/Charles Woodman (performer)
Exchange Dance Festival, Tulsa, OK, Self-Portrait, Verse IIV: For Joi and Hope by Melody Ruffin-Ward
Form-Transform – solo work with video and performance art
New Genre, Tulsa, OK, Untamed by Amy McIntosh
New Genre, Tulsa, OK, Standing at the Edge
 
2010
Gulf Cleanup Benefit Concert, Plano, TX, Field Study No. 547 by Amy Querin (performance), paperCUTS (videodance) by Linda Caldwell
New Genre Dance Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, Untamed by Amy McIntosh
 
2009
New Genre (XVI) Dance Oklahoma, presented by Living Arts Council of Tulsa
White After Labor Day
She Drew a Picture of a Whale, solo performance with video
Frailty by Amy McIntosh
Last Thread
 
Out of The Loop Festival, Addison, TX: Visiting the Timeline
Inter…rupted by L. Brooke Schlecte
Standing at the Edge
 
Exchange Dance Festival
She Drew a Picture of a Whale
Last Thread
Frailty by Amy McIntosh
Distilled Verse No. 5 by Melody Ruffin-Ward
Emerging by Amy McIntosh
 
Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival, Moment of Inertia, performed by festival participants
 
2008
Out Of The Loop Festival, Addison, TX
She Drew a Picture of a Whale, solo performance by L. Brooke Schlecte, video by Rachel Bruce Johnson
 
ORU Faculty Concert, Tulsa, OK
Infinite by Amy McIntosh (performance)
Frailty by Amy McIntosh (performance)
White After Labor Day (performance & choreography)  
Prepare the Veil by Rachel Bruce Johnson, M.F.A.
(performance & choreography)
 
Ad Deum Summer Dance Intensive, Houston, TX, Shifting Parables
by L. Brooke Schlecte, M.F.A. (performer)
 
2007
She Drew a Picture of a Whale [videodance]
Gala Performance, American College Dance Festival, Ft. Worth, TX MAMandSCHLECTEdance Concert, Plano Courtyard Theatre, Plano, TX

Dance for Camera version, premiere April 2007
Margo Jones Performance Hall, Texas Woman’s University


This Tupperware is Microwave Safe
by L. Brooke Schlecte, Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, TX 

If It Had Not Been Sweet, Sarah Gamblin, TWU faculty, former dancer with the Bebe Miller Company
, Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, TX

The Offering, 
Dance Studio Theatre, Denton, Texas
MAMandSCHLECTEdance Concert
She Drew a Picture of a Whale


Inter…rupted
 by L. Brooke Schlecte
a meal., Bread and Water
by Jeanne S. Mam, Plano Courtyard Theatre, Plano, TX

2006
Dance Lab Fall 2006 by Sarah Gamblin, TWU faculty, former dancer with the Bebe Miller Company, Dance Studio Theatre, Denton, Texas

The Marfa Project: Mapping Emptiness in the Landscape 

Visual Arts/Dance Interdisciplinary Collaborative Multi Media Performance and Exhibition, 
1-hour group improvisation work directed by Assistant Professor Sarah Gamblin, Department of Dance, 
with Assistant Professor Tanya Synar, Department of Visual Arts. Visual Arts East Gallery, Denton, Texas


T TH 8-9:50, SCIENCE BLDG
by Kayla Hamilton, Green Space, Denton, Texas, Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, Texas


Intersections, Michelle Contrino, M.F.A., Dance Studio Theatre, Denton, Texas

2005
Wolf by Rosalie Jones/Daystar, guest artist (soloist), Arts in Native American Culture Interdisciplinary Seminar, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas


Holla Back Girl
& Lonely Goat Herd by Doug Elkins, guest artist, Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, Texas & Hubbard Hall, Denton, Texas


We Are Rockstars: The Aftermath by Sarah Gamblin, TWU faculty, former dancer with the Bebe Miller Company, Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, Texas 

Stay ‘Til Sleep by Sarah Gamblin, TWU faculty, former dancer with the Bebe Miller Company, American College Dance Festival, Informal
& Oklahoma Central University, Edmond, OK

Terrible Angels (last minute understudy when dancer got sick)
by Sarah Gamblin, TWU faculty, former dancer with the Bebe Miller Company, Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, TX

2004
Texas Leadership Conference

Tiffany Arnold, guest artist

May the Circle be Unbroken: The Family Knot
Hubbard Hall, Denton, Texas

Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, TX



Stay ‘Til Sleep, Sarah Gamblin, TWU faculty, former dancer with the Bebe Miller Company 

Margo Jones Performance Hall, Denton, Texas



Katie Feiok, freelance artist, Tulsa, OK

Unread Letters, guest performer

Contemporary Dance Theatre of Tulsa

New Genre Festival, Nightengale Theatre, Tulsa, Oklahoma

2003 - 2004
Contemporary Dance Theatre of Tulsa 

Jill Priest, artistic director

*company member and contributing choreographer
2004
Gypsy by Rachel Bruce

Thy Neighbor by Rachel Bruce

Out of My Skin by Caren Chillemi

siNOTra by Jill Priest

Unread Letters by Katie Feiok

Solidarity in C Major by Jill Priest
2003 

2000-2002
Crossroads Dance Project,Washington DC 

Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper, artistic directors

*company member, principle dancer, and contributing choreographer

2002 Crossroads School of the Arts (guest)

Gunston Performing Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
Baruch Ha’Ba by Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper

Women of the Well by Rachel Bruce

Breathing by Kimberly Tapper

Cauffee Tawk by Rachel Bruce



2000-2001 Thomas Jefferson Theatre, Arlington, Virginia

The Gift of the Nutcracker


Jack Guidone Theatre at Joy of Motion, DC

Requiem – excerpt from Thy Neighbor by Rachel Bruce

Baruch Ha’ba: Promise, Betrayal (solo) by Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper

Breathing by Kimberly Tapper

Soledad by Kimberly Tapper

Enseñada by Kathryn Eurich

Witness by Kimberly Tapper

Down at the Crossroads by Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper

Minor Technicalities by Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper


Father Make Us One, Patriot Center, Reston, Virginia



Crossroads School of the Arts (guest)
Grace Children’s Center, Karin, Kenya


Lubber Run Amphitheatre, Arlington, VA
Gunston Performing Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia

Baruch Ha’Ba by Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper

Thy Neighbor by Rachel Bruce

Suite Harmony by Kathryn Eurich & Kimberly Tapper

Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide by Kathryn Eurich

Breathing by Kimberly Tapper

Metro by Melissa Wilhoit

1997-1999
1998 Faure Requiem by Melody Ruffin-Ward, ODU faculty.

Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell: choreographed by Melody Ruffin-Ward, ODU faculty; Chandler Recital Hall, Norfolk, VA.



Second Wind Dance Company

Community arts festival dance performance , Virginia Beach, VA.



University Dance Theatre, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

Time Equals… by Todd Rosenleib, former artistic director of the 
Erik Hawkins Dance Company, New York, NY

Sacred Fields by Beverly Cordova Duane, artistic director of Second Wind Dance Company, Virginia Beach, VA

Bounds (soloist) by Marilyn Marloff, Department Chair 

The Other Voices by Jane Franklin of Jane Franklin Dance, Washington, DC

Mine, Theirs, Ours by Melody Ruffin-Ward, ODU faculty


Co-directed the first annual Student Choreography Show at ODU where she performed an original solo with text, The Scarlet Ibis.

1996
His Company International: toured with Missions International to Russia; offering seminars, performance, and classes to the people of Moscow, Nichnez-Novogorad, and St. Petersburg.

RESIDENCIES, MASTER CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS


2015    University of Tulsa, modern dance workshop
2014    University of Tulsa, modern dance workshop
2013    eMerge Dance Festival, modern dance workshop
            Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival, choreography commission
2012    Exchange Dance Festival, Performance Process workshop
            {254} dance-festival, Improvisation workshop
            Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival, choreography commission
2010    Central High School, modern dance workshop
2009    Eugene Field Elementary School, Living Water Dance Company, dance workshops
            Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival, choreography commission
2003-04 Pilates, Core Abs, and Aerobics classes taught at Fitness Time, Skiatook, OK

2004    GCAHA Meeting - Lecture: “Pilates for Equestrians: Exercises to Improve Your Riding”

2002-02 Crossroads School for the Arts, Herndon, VA
Taught adult and children’s ballet and modern dance classes
Coordinated and produced annual school galas including receptions

Choreographed and performed as a Crossroads Dance Project guest artist

2002    Darryl Green Learning Center, Washington DC

2001    Young Audiences, Norfolk, VA

1999    Larchmont Elementary School: Series of children's discussion sessions designed to teach kids how to view dance.

1999    Choreographed and designed Dancing Children's Stories: Portsmouth Recreational Center. Series of dances inspired by various children's books presented for discussion to community awareness.

1996    His Company International: toured with Missions International to Russia; offering seminars, performance, and classes to the people of Moscow, Nichnez-Novogorad, and St. Petersburg.
 
INFLUENTIAL STUDIES & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Dance, Spirituality, & Social Justice Symposium, Houston, TX
 
Modern Technique:
Sarah Gamblin, release technique, Klein technique, Contact Improvisation
Mary Williford-Shade, release technique, Bartinieff Fundamentals
Todd Rosenlieb, Michael Parameter, Bill Wade, Jr., Hawkins technique
Melody Ruffin-Ward, influenced by Cunningham and Limon
 
Performance Process:
Linda Caldwell
Mary Williford-Shade
 
Ballet Technique:
Stephanie Milling-Robbins, A.B.D.
Glenda Norcross, current member of the New York Baroque Dance Company, former student of Nathalie Krassovska of the Ballet Russe
Sheryl Roland, Kingwood, TX
Leslie Vice-Clark, former principle dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet
Gayla Zuchevich , Virginia Ballet Theatre
Tulsa Ballet Center for Dance Education
 
Pilates method of body conditioning:
Gayla Zuchevich , Virginia Ballet Theatre
Leslie Vice-Clark, former principle dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet
 
UNPUBLISHED WRITTEN WORK AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
 
2012 – present           Oklahoma Dance Film Festival film reviewer and presenter
2012    Oklahoma Dance Film Festival presenter
2010    World Dance Alliance Global Summit, Reviewer
2007    A Kinesthetic Approach to the Choreographic Process of Dance for Camera
            Professional Portfolio presentation, TWU
            Creative Arts and Research Symposium, TWU
2006    The Challenge of Creating Artistic Exchanges in Virtual Space
            Panel Presentation, National Dance Educator’s Organization, Long Beach, CA
            A House of Mirrors: A Model for Seeing and Becoming Within Performance
            Creative Arts and Research Symposium, TWU
2005    Dance for Camera: Theory and Practice in the Collaboration of Mediums
            University Teaching section proposed on-line course
            Marketing, Design and Branding, design seminar for dance majors

HONORS AND AWARDS
 
2007    Outstanding Graduate Student, Texas Woman’s University
1999    Magna Cum Laude, Old Dominion University
The Exchange Choreography Festival and Oklahoma Dance Film Festival programs are made possible with the assistance of the Oklahoma Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as, additional subsidized support from partners, such as, Choregus Productions,
​The Tulsa Ballet & Holland Hall. 
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