ODC Theater: Audrey Johnson – For A Moment/No Longer

For A Moment/No Longer (working title) is a dance about letting go and staying. breaking open and re-assembling. about turning towards each other, the necessity of heartbreak, and trusting the pulse as a rhythm to follow home. For A Moment/No Longer studies the physicality of moving from the heartbeat as resist/persist-ence practice through the act of breaking open. With pulse as downbeat, the work draws inspiration and reverence from queer Black feminist praxis, the canon of Black American spiritual jazz artists, and moves from a Love Ethic as theorized by bell hooks. The work is in conversation with mountains, tides, breath, earth, tree, fog, and other known and unknown forces.

About the Artist

Audrey Johnson is a queer, Black, mixed-race dance artist and plant worker with roots from Detroit, Michigan/Anishinaabe land, currently based in Oakland, CA/Ohlone land. Audrey’s performance, choreographic, and teaching work experiments with improvisation and embodied time travel, in refusal of colonized time and space. She has shown performance work in the San Francisco Bay Area and Detroit, and has performed in the companies of artists Gerald Casel, Jennifer Harge, Biba Bell, Detour Dance, and Stephanie Hewett, among others.

This project is generously supported by CA$H Dance (Bay Area), Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, and the National Endowment for the Arts