Choreographic Commissions

Spring 2009:

New premiere for the Dance Department at California State University, Long Beach at the Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts.

November, 2008:

New premiere for the Dance Department at California State University, Long Beach, November 12-15 at the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theatre. This work will be a collaboration with composer, Rychard Cooper and visual artist, Chris Martin (most recently Production Assistant for David Michalek's Slow Dancing installation).

Newly commissioned work for a collaboration between the New West Symphony and the Ventura Ballet, Beethoven's
"Creatures of Prometheus," November 7,8 and 9, 2008. Please visit the New West Symphony website for details and ticket prices.

Invited to present "Study for Common Ground" at SOLA, directed by Regina Klenjoski. This will be the inaugral performance of Lorin Johnson's new company, So Cal Ballet Lab, and will be at the James Armstrong Theatre, Torrance, November 8 at 8pm.

September, 2008:

Newly commissioned work for CaDance, the Laguna Dance Festival directed by Jodie Gates, September 20, 2008
Please visit the CaDance website for more details.

Choreographic Residency at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, September 22-27, 2008.

Guest Teaching

Summer 2009:

I have been invited to be on faculty for the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive program at the University of Alabama in the summer of 2009.
Please visit the ABT website for more details.

Events & News

• Announcing the launch of Lorin Johnson's new company, So Cal Ballet Lab. The inaugral performance of the company will take place at the SOLA dance festival on November 8 (see above), in which So Cal Ballet Lab will present Johnson's "Study for Common Ground."
  Company members shown below are (from left to right): Kaitlin Muse, Kimberly Hannah, Emma Storey, Katherine Schafer, Luke Stockton, Artistic Director Lorin Johnson, and Emily Edgell.
  
                
  
  
  

• Photos of Lorin Johnson dancing with ABT are featured in Karen Clippinger's new textbook, Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology, Human Kinetics, 2007.
  (see page 188)

• On May 26, 2007 I attended the American Ballet Theatre Alumni Reunion in New York at the Metropolitan Opera House. I am shown in this photo of the bow onstage at the Met on the far right (click on the photo for larger image).
  Read the New York Times Review of this event

Photo by Mira Armstrong