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
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
