2009 / 2010 Calendar

Fall 2010

• Body Current Dance has been invited to be the guest company in residency at the Mt. San Jacinto Junior College, December 2-3.
  
  
• Lorin Johnson has been invited to be guest choreographer in the Classical/Contemporary Department at the
  Orange County High School of the Arts (OCHSA).

Summer 2010

• Lorin Johnson taught and choreographed on faculty at the American Ballet Theatre summer intensive program at the University of Alabama, June 2010.
  
  
  ABT Alabama Faculty: Melissa Hayle Coyle, Franco Devita (Principal of ABT JKO school in New York), Lisa Slagle, Lorin Johnson, Carla Stallings-Lippert, Orlando Molina, and Colleen O'Callaghan.

May 2010

• Lorin Johnson taught as a guest teacher in the Regional Dance America/Pacific Festival, May 13-15.

March 2010

• Body Current Dance, directed by Lorin Johnson, performed Johnson's premiere My Breath Comes Differently in Celebrate Dance 2010, receiving critical acclaim in the Glendale News Press. Read the full review here.
  

December 2009

• Lorin Johnson's article on the early history of The Nutcracker ballet, "Born in Russia, re-imagined in America," is now available in the winter issue of Dance International.
  Please visit the Dance International website for more details.
  You can read a PDF of the article here

November 2009

• Lorin Johnson's work "Current" has been chosen as a finalist in the 12th Annual Dance Under The Stars Choreography Festival at the Mccallum Theatre in Palm Springs, November 15th at 4pm. 
  Please visit www.mccallumtheatre.com/education/festival.php
  
  
                         The cast of "Current" backstage at the McCallum Theatre
  
  
  
  
• Lorin Johnson's new premiere, "Shadow Play," for the Dance Department, California State University, Long Beach, was performed November 18-21 at the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theatre on campus at CSULB. Please visit this link to see a video.

September 2009

• Lorin Johnson staged the Czardas from Swan Lake on students at the Dance Insitute at the Colburn School.
  
  
  Michael Roberts, Leslie Carothers-Aromaa, and Lorin Johnson
  

Summer 2009

• Lorin Johnson taught and choreographed for the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive program at the University of Alabama.
  Please visit the ABT website for more details.

• Lorin Johnson presented a paper on contemporary ballet pedagogy at the Congress for Research in Dance (CORD) Conference, Global Perspectives on Dance Pedagogy: Research and Practice, June 25-27 in Leicester, UK. Please visit the CORD website for more details, or to order a copy of the conference proceedings.

• Body Current Dance, a new contemporary dance company directed by Lorin Johnson, performed in the Kaleidoscope Dance Festival, Northwood Performing Arts Theatre, Irvine
  

American Ballet Theatre Reunion 2007

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

Photo by Mira Armstrong