| At THE BELL HOUSE, we are interested in the collaboration of ideas, people, and processes. THE BELL HOUSE fosters meeting points for artistic collaboration and challenges conventional ways of making art. Whether in dancefilm, across the globe via the Internet, or in the choreographic form, BELL HOUSE work is informed by a diverse training in dance, visual art, and music of the artists that visit us. As in a prism, these various perspectives on the visual and the kinesthetic refract and overlap revealing and creating new possibilities in art-making. THE BELL HOUSE is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization. To donate click here. | |
about the director RACHEL BRUCE JOHNSON is the founder and Executive Director of Bell House Arts, Inc., a collaborative dance and art cooperative dedicated to creating opportunity for artistic exchange. 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. Mrs. Johnson’s dance film work includes Deeper, we all fall down, PASSAGES, Prepare the Veil, PaperCUTS, and She Drew a Picture of a Whale. Ms. Johnson has worked as a dance performance soloist, contributing choreographer and video enthusiast for various companies across the U.S. and abroad. Her work has garnished such critical comments as "avant-garde" [Margaret Putnam, Dallas Morning News] and "excellence in kinetic artistry" [Loretta Livingston] and was included in the American College Dance Festival’s gala invitational in 2007, the National Dance Association/AAHPERD convention, Screen Door Film Festival, Kivisto Studio K Tulsa, and various other multi-disciplinary venues. She has studied with such artists as Melody Ruffin-Ward (Rhode Island College), Sarah Gamblin (Bebe Miller), Mary Williford-Shade (Mark Taylor), and Todd Rosenlieb (Erik Hawkins Dance Company). She is particularly interested in performance process and in creating work for the dance for camera genre. Ms. Johnson holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Performance and Choreography from Texas Woman's University in Denton, TX and received the Outstanding Graduate Student award. In 2009, she launched the first adjudicated dance choreography festival in Tulsa, OK; THE EXCHANGE. Ms. Johnson also performs and choreographs with the Living Water Dance Company and Out On a Limb Dance Company. She is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Dance at Oral Roberts University and serves as a dance committee member for the Living Arts Council in Tulsa, OK. Click for full vitae. |
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