Julie B. Johnson, Phd​dance artistEducator

Spelman College Dance Performance & Choreography Report on the
PHASE THREE PROCESS

Production of By Our Hands presented by The Georgia Incarceration Performance Project

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Composers Okorie "OkCello" Johnson and Munir Zakee with Spelman Dance students. Photo by Clay Chastain, UGA

Overview...

Collaborators of the Phase III creative devising process handed off materials they generated during the intensive workshop to the collaborators of Phase IV for the culminating production, By Our Hands.

THE GEORGIA INCARCERATION PERFORMANCE PROJECT PRESENTS: BY OUR HANDS 
premiered at UGA in November, 2019 and at Spelman in February, 2020.
Key Collaborators…
  • Co-Directors:
    • Prof. Keith Bolden, Spelman College
    • Dr. Julie B. Johnson, Spelman College
    • Dr. Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, UGA
    • Dr. Emily Sahakian, UGA
  • Associate Co-Director:
    • Prof. Kathleen Wessel, Spelman College
  • Choreographers:
    • ​Dr. Julie B. Johnson
    • Prof. Kathleen Wessel
    • Student Assistant Choreographer, Aquilah Ohemeng
  • Cast: 
    • Spelman / Morehouse:
    • Cymiah Alexander
    • Rimothy Bennet
    • Myles Chandler
    • LaMonica Moody
    • Egypt Noboa
    • Aquilah Ohemeng
    • Joshua Paine
    • Robert Rucker
    • Issiah Simas
    • Joi Stewart
    • Treasure Tannock
    • Sydney Terry
    • Summer Kai Thomas
    • Jaron Williams
    • UGA:
    • Jack Dugan
    • Madeline Franz
    • Brett Green
    • Claire Holman
    • Jonathan Matthews
    • Nosayaba Okungbowa
    • Sydney Patton
    • Mira Ratchev
    • Morgan Watkins
    • Breanna Wheele 
  • Composers:
    • Colette "CC Sunchild" Coward
    • Okorie "OkCello" Johnson
    • Munir Zakee
  • Script Supervisors/Dramaturgs:
    • Angela Hall
    • Philip Brankin
  • Visual Media Designer:
    • Charmaine Minniefield
    • Jason Woodworth-Hou
  • Scenic Design:
    • Kelly Murphy
  • Costume Designers:
    • Debórah Hughes
    • Daniel Carter
  • Production Manager:
    • Andre Allen
  • Production Crew:
    • Spelman and Morehouse students with assistance from Prof. Joan McCarty
  • Stage Managers (Spelman Students):
    • Kristen Cole
    • Kaylah Smith
  • Lighting/Sound designer: 
    • Erwin Greene
  • Creative and Executive Producer: 
    • Barbara McCaskill​

To view the full program and complete list of collaborators for By Our Hands, click the file below:
gaipp_spelman_program-2.pdf
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UGA Archivist Jill Severn with Spelman Social Justice Fellow/Assoc. Photo by Ken Kootin
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Photo by Clay Chastain, UGA
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Photo by Clay Chastain, UGA
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Project Manager/UGA Theatre Grad Student Pedro Alvarado with Spelman Theater Student Photo by Clay Chastain
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Photo by Clay Chastain, UGA
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Co-Directors Dr. Julie B. Johnson and Dr. Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin. Photo by Ken Kootin.
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Morehouse student. Photo by Clay Chastain, UGA
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UGA Archivist Jill Severn with Spelman Social Justice Fellow/Assoc. Photo by Ken Kootin
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UGA Archivist Jill Severn with Spelman Social Justice Fellow/Assoc. Photo by Ken Kootin

Archival Exhibit
With the help of archivists from UGA's Special Collections Library and the AUC Woodruff Archives, we transferred excerpts of the of archival exhibition, "The New Slavery & the New South" to the Baldwin Burroughs Theatre Lobby of the Fine Arts Building at Spelman College. The exhibit featured historical documents, photographs, and prints of materials used in our research and creative process.

Special thanks to Martina Dodd from Woodruff Library for her assistance with curating and installing the exhibit!

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