Commissioned specifically for Overdose Awareness Day 2020 in Nanaimo, Lifeline poem in motion mainly reflects on how to create embodied compassion, develop empathy and find ways to process trauma through movement creation. This site-specific poem in motion was performed on Wesley street near Nanaimo’s tent city, in and around Standing Figure #10 sculpture by Troy Moth to encourage audience to take a new point of view on the site and the issue.
Choreography, Poem and Performance: Genevieve Johnson
Music and Camera: Sofina Johnson
Dramaturgy: Holly Bright
From a place within and without, leaning on our self and each other for support, we can rise from adversity and grow, through the threads we weave in resonance as a community. This piece celebrates the space and beauty of Vancouver Island as well as the bond built through knitting together, embedding our hopes and fears in the weft, that allowed me to nest, lean and rise back again in order to continue forward. Nested: Lean and Rise was performed for InFrinGinG Dance Festival 2020 in a beautiful field around East Wellington area.
Choreography, Poem, Performance: Genevieve Johnson
Music Composition and Performance: Sofina Johnson
Kimono Conception-Creation: Marcelle Moisan, Genevieve Johnson
Knitters: Family, Friends, the Community
Camera: Stefan Johnson
The sunrise and sunset reflect the beauty of love; reliable in its power to attract, repel, destroy and create. Based on a story by Snuneymuxw First Nations Traditional storyteller and contemporary author Celestine Aleck. This piece was performed at the Nanaimo Port Theatre for InFringinG Dance Festival and at the Vancouver Firehall for Dancing On The Edge Festival.
Choreography: Holly Bright
Collaborator and Author: Celestine Aleck
Collaborators and Performers: Genevieve Johnson and Nicola Jackson
Video Projection: Chimera Project
Lighting Design: John Carter
Video: Chris Randle, Vancouver Dancing On The Edge Festival 2018
Stemming from her son’s anxiety and panic attacks at the time, Genevieve explores the feeling of helplessness a mother can have in front of her child sufferings. How to find ways to support and move forward with love?
Choreography and Performance: Genevieve Johnson
Music Composition and Performance: Kenny Brault
Camera: Gary Prendergast
This poetry night brought together poets and dancers. Moved by the words of Carla Funk, Genevieve transpose hope, love and grief into visual poetry.
Poems Writing and Reading: Carla Funk
Choreography and Performance: Genevieve Johnson
Camera: Marcelle Moisan
Umbrellas was created for visual artists Grant Leier and Nixie Barton. It was presented during the City of Nanaimo's 2016 Culture and Heritage Awards Ceremony at The Port Theatre. Inspired by four of their paintings, Holly Bright and Genevieve Johnson set movements to their extravagant compositions of colours, lines and textures.
Choreography and Performance: Holly Bright and Genevieve Johnson
Lighting Design: John Carter
Photos: Craig Letourneau
A journey through skin and bones, bark and stones: a revelation of self through nature metamorphisis.
Choreography and Performance: Genevieve Johnson
Music: Patrick Graham
Photos: Rachel Kirk
Embarking into a river’s journey from glaciers to ocean through every meandering corners filled with stones and branches… A woman evolves on stage as the water that can give and take life, water that we need to notice, respect and protect. Presented at the Nanaimo Port Theatre.
Choreography: Holly Bright
Collaboration and Performance: Genevieve Johnson
Musicians and Writers: Hilary Peach and DB Boyko
Lighting and Set design: Mike Taugher and Andrew Pye
Camera: Paul Manly
Exploring the body as micro-climates through embodying Vancouver Island powerful rain forest and coastal temperamental weather.
Choreography and Performance: Genevieve Johnson
Cinematography, Camera and Performance: Paul Manly
Music Composition and Performance: Patrick Graham
A strange interview with emoting movements for answers through the brief encounter between a camera's two dimensionality and the three dimensions of the stage.
Choreography and Performance: Genevieve Johnson
Cinematography, Camera and Performance: Paul Manly
Music: Patrick Graham
A young woman experiences transformation through embodied memories of objects that surrounded her through life. Like a walk through time, she revisits events, places and people before moving on…
Choreography and Performance: Genevieve Johnson
Music Composition and Performance: Patrick Graham and Nicholas Willams
Shadows of duality, haunting nightmare creatures, morphing childhood fear, destabilizing uncanniness… in a series of unsettling tableaux of deformities.
Choreography and performance: Genevieve Johnson
Collaboration and performance: Holly Bright
Music: Patrick Graham
Skirt: Caroline Mercier
