Burr Johnson (he / him) is a dancer and choreographer currently working with Kimberly Bartosik/daela, Netta Yerushalmy and The Trisha Brown Dance Company. He has performed with John Jasperse Projects (2010 – 2016), Shen Wei Dance Arts (2009 – 2017), Marina Abramović/GIVENCHY, Ryan McNamara, Boris Charmatz, Isabel Lewis, Christopher Williams, Sally Silvers, Bill Young, Jack Ferver, Moriah Evans and The Merce Cunningham Trust for “Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event” in LA. He is a 2020 New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award honoree for individual performance in Kimberly Bartosik’s “through the mirror of their eyes”. His choreographic work has been presented through Movement Research, Abrons Art Center, Danspace Project, The American Dance Festival, GIBNEY, Works and Process at the Guggenheim Museum and The Future Dance Festival at the Joyce Theater. He has guest-taught at Philadelphia University of the Arts, the University of Utah, Salem College, MoMA PS1, Goucher College, Virginia Commonwealth University, UNC Greensboro, Purchase College, The Juilliard Dance Division and The American Dance Festival. Johnson has received artist residencies through New York Live Arts’ Studio Series, The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation in Rockland Maine and Redtail Arts in Jamaica Queens. In 2024 he participated as a choreographer in the Alvin Ailey School’s New Directions Choreography Lab with mentorship from Melanie George (BFA Virginia Commonwealth University).
As of: December 2024