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Residencies & Workshops
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Collaborative ProgrammingLet’s align our creative visions, resources, and goals! Drawing on embodied histories and archival materials, we can devise an interdisciplinary, community-oriented, action-based research collaboration that connects the stories of our peoples to the land and spaces around us.
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Thought-Partnership |
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Whether interactive presentations, class visits, speaking on panels or moderating discussions, Julie is happy to contribute to dialogues on arts activism, dance and abolition, the arts’ role in exploring challenging histories, embodied memory work and archival research in dance, U.S. history of Black women’s labor through dance and the arts, and more!
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Would a brainstorming conversation be helpful to you? Need an ear to bend or another perspective on the work you are trying to build? Julie is honored to serve as a thought-partner to help get your projects off the ground, or help you deepen into possibility as you navigate new terrain in your creative endeavors.
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Testimonials
“Dr. Johnson exhibits a keen awareness of the connections of dance, performance, and the embodiment of memory. In my role as Spelman’s College Archivist, this is particularly critical when thinking of how we can activate archival materials in creative ways that can make connections to the present, and the implications those connections have for future possibilities.She is an engaged scholar who is also committed to equity, social justice, and collective community empowerment” - Holly Smith, Spelman College Archivist/ICHW Community Visioner, 9.4.23
“Dr. Johnson offered her signature “Moving Our Stories” sessions to my school aged students and also to my adult company members. They were incredibly useful to my company for generating new movement stories grounding the creative process in “place”, and therefore further developing our repertoire to reflect the lived experiences of Black women who share or have shared geographic location with us. It is always a pleasure to witness Dr. Johnson teach this embodied movement methodology because she does so with ease and joy, eloquently balancing the processes of idea generation and reflection” - Tambra Omiyale Harris, Artistic Director of Giwayen Mata/MOS & ICHW Collaborator, 9.18.23
“The main take away from Idle crimes & Heavy Work was the privilege to BE apart of the process. I was able to see and be involved in a community who've come together to shine light on a dark history that would be easier and more comfortable to forget and ignore. The experience makes me question more of the history of the land we live our everyday lives.”
- Okorie “Ok Cello” Johnson, Musician, 11.4.21
“That was truly a remarkable experience. Seeing emotions and works transformed into dance was very emotionally releasing. The group was not overcrowded and fostered a calm, safe place to share, relive a past experience, and relieve the energies from that experience in a healthy and fun way!” - Idle Crimes & Heavy Work, workshop participant, 3.31.21
“Dr. Johnson offered her signature “Moving Our Stories” sessions to my school aged students and also to my adult company members. They were incredibly useful to my company for generating new movement stories grounding the creative process in “place”, and therefore further developing our repertoire to reflect the lived experiences of Black women who share or have shared geographic location with us. It is always a pleasure to witness Dr. Johnson teach this embodied movement methodology because she does so with ease and joy, eloquently balancing the processes of idea generation and reflection” - Tambra Omiyale Harris, Artistic Director of Giwayen Mata/MOS & ICHW Collaborator, 9.18.23
“The main take away from Idle crimes & Heavy Work was the privilege to BE apart of the process. I was able to see and be involved in a community who've come together to shine light on a dark history that would be easier and more comfortable to forget and ignore. The experience makes me question more of the history of the land we live our everyday lives.”
- Okorie “Ok Cello” Johnson, Musician, 11.4.21
“That was truly a remarkable experience. Seeing emotions and works transformed into dance was very emotionally releasing. The group was not overcrowded and fostered a calm, safe place to share, relive a past experience, and relieve the energies from that experience in a healthy and fun way!” - Idle Crimes & Heavy Work, workshop participant, 3.31.21
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