SATURDAY, Sept. 26, 2009
DANCE AUDITION for The Cinderella Project: New Families/ Constructed Identities with Choreographer Holly Johnston
Roble 38 - 10am -12 noon (studio open at 9:30am for personal warm-up). Please plan to work the full two hours.
Questions? Email Diane Frank, <dfrank1@stanford.edu>
Open to all dancers of all styles interested in high velocity, high energy movement, deep physicality. Please wear long pants, sleeved shirt, knee pads suggested.
About the project: Acclaimed LA choreographer Holly Johnston comes to Stanford campus as a guest artist of both the Dance Division and the Committee on Black Performing Arts. She is commissioned to choreograph new work for "The Cinderella Theory: New Families/Constructed Identities", a multi-faceted Stanford performance project conceived by Robert Moses, Director of CBPA. The project will examine new constructions of family through the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and politics. Johnston's dance work will explore themes of self-constructed and imposed identities built from our gender, ethnicity, and family backgrounds. Rehearsals held Autumn/ Winter quarters, for early Spring quarter performance. Autumn/Winter rehearsal schedule includes weekend rehearsals, brief mid-week review. Detailed dates provided at audition.
About Holly Johnston: "...a fearless investigator of the human condition." --LA Times. Holly Johnston was born in South Korea and has lived in the United Sates since her adoption at the age of four. Spending most of her life preoccupied with physical play, she in now the artistic director of ledges and bones dance project. LABdp is a collection of contemporary dance artists collaborating to create original choreography through a rigorous process of improvisation, experimentation and repetition. Johnston was selected by Dance Magazine as one of their top 25 to Watch in 2007 for her fearless and fluid (Dance Magazine) approach to choreography. She is a performer, choreographer, and movement educator holding a BA in Dance from Loyola Marymount University. She emerges from a career as a dancer using her passionate performance style and her relentless drive for movement invention to create work as an independent choreographer alongside her company of dancers based out of Los Angeles and/or San Francisco. Her choreography has been described as "stunning" (NY Theater), "hard-driving, hyperphysical" (LA Times, "lovely, leasing unpredictable" (Dance Insider, NY.) Her work has been presented in New York, Arizona, and extensively throughout Los Angeles. at The Ford Amphitheater, HIghways Performance Space, Diavolo Performance Space, El Portal Theater, and FOCUSfish, with performances at ODC Theater/San Francisco and The Linhart Theater/NYC as part of the 2007 touring season. She has received five Lester Horton Award nominations. She has performed nationally and internationally, touring Malaysia/Singapore, New York, Las Vegas, Mexico, Vancouver BC,, San Francisco, Detroit, and the Cayman Islands. She has performed in venues such as the Joyce SoHo, The Getty Centere, Cutural Center de Tijuana, The RedCat, The Sharon Disney Lund Theater, City Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Carpenter Center and many others throughout the US and abroad.
Excerpted Artistic Statement (from web site): "I believe our bodies expose poetic truth as home for the molecular history of our experiences....We work in high velocity physicality for its challenge on the nervous system, becoming a responsive primal being rather than an intellectual observer of physical action. We also explore high-risk partnering as a vehicle toward trust and intimacy, gaining greater confidence in connected relationships with each other and in all aspects of our lives." --Holly Johnston.