About me
Michael Peter Johnson is a freelance dance artist, fashion journalist, collaborator and producer.
As a dancer and performer Michael has worked with many choreographers and companies including, Wayne Mcgregor/Random Dance (Big Dance 2012) Adaire to Dance, Lea Anderson & Gary Clarke (Games Time) Tom Dale, Katherine Hollinson, Regina Weilingen, Ascendance Rep, RODA, Hinged Dance Co, The Typewriters, Joseph Mercier and Rosanna Irvine.
Michael graduated from the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance with a first class BA Hons. Whilst at Rambert School, he worked with Kerry Nicholls (Random Dance), Robert Cohan OBE (LCDT), Mark Baldwin, (Rambert Dance Company) alongside his contemporaries at school in creating new dance works. He was influenced by choreographers and dance mentors such as, Darshan Singh Bhuller, Charlotte Kirkpatrick, Darren Ellis, Julie Cunningham and Tiia Ourilla.
Within his own artistic practice Michael thrives from working in collaboration with other art forms. Some of his recent collaborations have included working with photographers, philosophers, actors, stylists, costume designers and fashion designers. This work continually inspires his freelance dance career.
He has experience in arts management and is skilled in festival management, arts administration and producing. He currently works for both the Southbank Centre and Dance Umbrella Festival. Michael was recently identified as a candidate for the Bring Out Potential programme at the Southbank Centre; a scheme that has developed his producing and collaborating work within a leading arts venue. Michael is currently working as producer for the choreographer, Lindy Nsingo. Visit Nsingo’s website here: www.lindynsingo.com
In 2013 Michael became the founder editor of Mode & Motion; the online chronicle of dance and fashion and has completed a course in Fashion Journalism from the University of Arts, London.
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Projects
- Big Dance 2012Big Dance Trafalgar Square 2012 For Big Dance Trafalgar Square 2012, Wayne McGregor worked in collaboration with hundreds of performers from across London to create a new large-scale forty-minute dance piece for the stunning location of Trafalgar Square, as part of London Festival 2012. The piece was performed on the afternoon of 14 July 2012, and involved almost 1000 participants, film footage by Ravi Deepres, a specially commissioned score by Scanner and Joel Cadbury, and costumes by Studio XO who have created stage costumes for the likes of JLS and Black Eyed Peas. The project was also the subject of a Channel 4 documentary produced by Leopard Films.
- Web We WantHeld at the Southbank Centre, the festival is inspired by the work of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and produced in partnership with Sir Tim's World Wide Web Foundation. Come and celebrate all that is wonderful and extraordinary about the Web - and also to explore its challenges and difficulties. The Web allows us to communicate with people around the world, making it a vehicle for creative exploration, personal relationships and enormous business opportunities. However, there is also jeopardy. The ‘dark net’ facilitates underground online networks for everything from buying drugs to extreme politics. Also, universal and free access to the Web is under threat, as its governance is in the hands of a small number of people.
- Dancing Makes Me JoyfulCoinciding with the 56th Venice Biennale, contemporary artist Lena Liv and dancer/choreographer Lindy Nsingo present Dancing Makes Me Joyful from May 7 - August 15, 2015, at Palazzo Flangini, on the Canal Grande in Venice. This exhibition was the manifestation of a year-long collaborative effort between the two artists comprised of four multimedia installations and one pastel work by Liv. There was two opportunities to view a live performance by Nsingo in response to Liv’s pieces: May 7 and May 8. Two monitors were situated in the exhibition space; one depicting Liv’s process as she independently constructs her work, the other as documentation of Nsingo’s performance which initiated this artistic investigation. Neons were also be installed around the city reverberating the name of the show, Dancing Makes Me Joyful.
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Work history
CO Curator & Project Manager
Project Manager & Dance
Co - project managed and curated Dancing Makes Me Joyful exhibition for the 56th Venice Biennale, 2015.
Dance production manager.
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Skills
- Fashion
- Events
- Marketing PR
- Theatre
- Dance
- Office
- Performance Artist
- Editor-in-chief
- Dance Criticism
- Dance Performance
- Dance Management
- Catwalk Production
Education
BA(Hons) Ballet and Contemporary Dance
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