Choreography

With over 20 years of professional experience, 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 and for camera.​

dance for camera

The Moon by Rachel Bruce Johnson and Jessica Vokoun, commissioned by Dances Made to Order
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)

Publications

WRITTEN WORK AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
PUBLISHED 
Bones Will Sing: Dance As Spiritual Formation
An Unexpected Journal, Fall 2023, Volume 6, Issue 3
​https://anunexpectedjournal.com/bones-will-sing-dance-in-spiritual-formation/
UNPUBLISHED
A Kinesthetic Approach to the Choreographic Process of Dance for Camera, 2007

The Challenge of Creating Artistic Exchanges in Virtual Space, 2006

A House of Mirrors: A Model for Seeing and Becoming Within Performance, 2006
    
Dance for Camera: Theory and Practice in the Collaboration of Mediums, 2005

Professional Affiliations

PAST & PRESENT
Oklahoma Center for Non Profits
AHHA
National Dance Educators Organization
Dance Films Association
Women of Compassion