Performing Live

Performing Live Suspended in a welcoming journey of connectedness. The gentleness was warm and calm. Yet I felt conflicted: a heavy sadness, tangled and emotional. Separate but together. Cozy began to feel contained and confined. The light was gentle, peaceful, steady in expansion, carefully welcoming. The journey so bittersweet; free to expand and discover while […]
Last Workshop with lolly b: Collaborating Presences

lolly b and Renée Poisson dancing • Video stills: Geneviève Johnson Collaboration After a year of working alone, collaborations like these 4 one-on-one workshops that I just finished facilitating are like a very welcomed and much needed fresh breeze. As the participants added their piece to the kimono I felt they were giving it a […]
Third Workshop with Renée: Morphing Presences

Third Workshop with Renée: Morphing Presences Exchanging Guidance Giving Guiding movers through a personal journey paved with images is very fulfilling and inspiring for me. Bouncing back and forth each others explorations, ideas and words opens up a dynamic path to create new poems in motion. For the participants and for myself as well. These […]
Second Workshop with Nicola: Layering Presences

Second Workshop with Nicola: Layering Presences The Workshop Separating the workshop from the filmed explorations made everything flow better. The exercises led to the guided filmed sections nicely. The prior practice with images and “becoming-other” really filled Nicola with intention and qualities for the second part. Nicola Jackson in dancing exploration • Video still Planning, […]
First Workshop, Samantha: In Real Presence

A Spontaneous Dive Being present, live, with someone and move in a beautiful outdoor setting was a real gift! There were magic moments… Samantha Letourneau • Video still from her workshop We ended up being so much into dancing and creating, I forgot half of what I structured to do and to record during our […]
My Dance of the In-Between

My Dance of the In-Between Video stills from Geneviève’s 2 films below Recovery as In-between State I am in the “in-between” of recovery: I cannot dance how I used to dance, I am not allowed to perform all range of movement yet. But there is the promise that I will be able to move as […]
Butoh & Landscape Under Skin Explorations

In this blog, you will find a series of Butoh and Landscape Under Skin Theatre exercises. You can explore them as individual exercises to create short poems in motion. Make them yours by being creative with them. Why did I choose these explorations in particular? I put these explorations together because they specifically relate to the individual workshop […]
One-On-One Workshop Invitation

One-On-One Workshop Invitation This week’s blog is an invitation. Invitation to dance with me through a private class and being part of a short poetic film to be presented at InFrinGinG Dance Festival in Nanaimo this summer. Invitation I am inviting 3 to 5 people (artists, movers, art or dance enthusiasts) to participate in a private […]
Different Fields Inspiring My Practice

Different Fields Inspiring My Practice My practice is about: Fragmenting Layering Dancing in between Becoming multiplicity in one Creating a doubt, a faultline, an opening to dive in. Performer: Geneviève Johnson • Photo: Dirk Heydemann • Costume: Graham McGonagle • Photos series inspired by The Sun and The Moon Show by Holly Bright What inspires me is […]
Our Porosity

Our Porosity Big Bang and Stardust Big Bang • by Geneviève Johnson collage with Hubble telescope image of a nebula One thing Hubert Reeves wrote long time ago always stuck with me: we are made of stardust (Poussière d’étoiles, Hubert Reeves, Le Seuil, collection « Science ouverte », Paris, 1984.) Poetically, it is beautiful but he […]