underwater dance

Deeper (2008)
Director: Rachel Bruce Johnson
Choreography & Performance: Kathryn Eurich
Camera: Bryan Mong
Edit: Rachel Bruce Johnson

The dancer struggles, floats, twists, and finally plunges into a challenge to go deeper into self-denial through the spiritual experience of baptism.

Dance/Metro DC 2010 Annual Dance/USA Conference
National Dance Association/AAHPERD 2010 Convention, Indianapolis, IN
Studio K - Living Water Dance Company Concert, September 2009

dancefilm

Paper Cuts (2008)
Choreography: Linda Caldwell
Performance: Sarah Newton
Music: Keith Fleming
Camera & edit: Rachel Bruce Johnson

A world of paper surrounds the mover and cuts through her wonder, joy, and greed as she consumes all around her. She is left in a world of sorrow as she washes her hands of guilt and pain.

Dancing to Restore the Gulf Benefit Dance Concert, Plano, TX, July 2010
Oklahoma Dance Film Festival, Tulsa, OK, August 2010
Premiere screening: Breaking Windows, Denton, TX, October 2008

dancer with pen behind back

She Drew a Picture of a Whale (2007)
Choreography & Performance:
Rachel Bruce Johnson & L. Brooke Schlecte
Camera & editing: Tanner Rice
Music: CocoRosie

Two soloists confront their struggles as one surpresses and the other unleashes the monster of distorted body image.

National Dance Association/AAHPERD 2010 Convention, Indianapolis, IN
Studio K - Living Water Dance Company Concert
Video blog at http://www.hearthevoice.com
Premiere screening: Texas Woman's University, May 2007

marfa

THE MARFA PROJECT: Mapping Emptiness in the Landscape (2006)
Improvography & performance: Funmilayo Hill, Rachel Bruce Johnson, Nika Stein
Camera & media: Mark Callop

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.

Premiere screening: Texas Woman's University, November, 2006

IDEAS IN THE MIRROR (2006)

Media collage accompanying a lecture/demonstration on performance process.

Premeire Screening, TWU, May 2006

fallen dancer

we all fall down(2005)
Improvography: Rachel Bruce Johnson & L. Brooke Schlecte
Performance: L. Brooke Schlecte
Music: Rebecca Loftiss

Filmed as a collage of images of a young woman swinging in a yard, the film is set on a landscape comprised of a pebble landing, a grassy hill and the angles of playground equipment. The film connects the personal with the tactile, the emotional with the playful, and the adult with the child. It is about finding the imbalance necessary to take the ‘next step’, paradoxically critical to the process of falling, a physical negotiation as if just barely tethered to the landscape.
Video blog at http://www.hearthevoice.com
Film Fatale Festival, Ft. Worth, July 2006
American College Dance Festival, Austin, TX
Art 6 Coffee House Art Festival, Denton, TX
Perpetual Motion Dance, Inc. Concert, Oklahoma City, OK
Screen Door Film Festival, Austin, TX

passages dancefilm

PASSAGES (2005)
Choreography: Michelle Dexter
Performance: Michelle Dexter, Amy Davis, Brandy Niccolai, Stephanie Willing, Daniel Mabry, Dorian Holmes
Music: Keren Ann, HIM, Brazilian Love Affair, Miles Davis, Gustavo Santaolalla

A process study on how one choreographer finds inspiration to create a dance - a journey from idea to movement.

Art 6 Coffee House Art Festival, Denton, TX
Premeire Screening, TWU, May 2005