Body Current Dance


		Photo of company member Belinda Lutes by Marc Rouyer
Body Current Dance is a project-by-project dance company directed by Lorin Johnson. Since its creation in 2009, BCD has performed at the Laguna Dance Festival, Celebrate Dance 2010, and in the Los Angeles Dance Iniviational 2011, receiving positive reviews in the press. Current Projects include a new work entitled "Intermezzo," to the music of Johannes Brahms (Intermezzo in A major No. 2, Op. 118), to be performed in the fall 2012 (venue TBA). Rehearsals begin in June. Past Projects August 2011: Los Angeles Dance Invitational Elegy (What Rises Can Fall) February 2011: workshop at the Colburn School, Los Angeles December 2010: In residence at Mt. San Jacinto College March 2010: Celebrate Dance My Breath Comes Differently May 2009: Kaleidoscope Dance Festival, Irvine November 2008: SOLA Dance Festival, Torrance BCD Company Members 2011 Kayla Bixby Kimberley Hannah Belinda Lutes Yumi Nakatani Joey Navarrete Thaihoa Nguyen Bridgette McNulty Andrew Palomares Emma Storey BCD Company Members 2009 Emily Edgell Kaitlin Muse Katherine Schafer Ostrout Luke Stockton Repertory 2011 Elegy (What Rises Can Fall) Choreography: Lorin Johnson Music: Mozart (Clarinet Concerto, A major) 2010 My Breath Comes Differently Choreography: Lorin Johnson Music: Joan Jeanrenaud 2009 Clearing Choreography: Lorin Johnson Music: Samuel Barber, John Field 2008 Study for Common Ground Choreography: Lorin Johnson Music: Ellen Alien		Photo of company member Belinda Lutes by Marc Rouyer
		Lorin Johnson began his training at the Pacific Dance Theatre in California before becoming a full-scholarship student at the San Francisco Ballet School. He danced with the San Francisco Ballet from 1986-1987 and joined the American Ballet Theatre in New York in 1987 under the directorship of Mikhail Baryshnikov. Johnson danced for ABT until 1995, performing eight seasons at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and working with some of the 20th centuries most influential choreographers: Ulysses Dove, Clark Tippet, Agnes DeMille, Glen Tetley, Kenneth Macmillan, Twyla Tharp, and Jerome Robbins, among many others. Described as "dynamic" and "electrifying," Johnson's choreographic work has been commissioned by such companies as South Bay Ballet, Ventura County Ballet, and Festival Ballet Theatre. His choreography has been presented in the Fabbrica Europa Dance Festival in Florence, Italy; Celebrate Dance 2010; the Orange County Performing Arts Center’s Invitational Dance Festival; the Laguna Dance Festival; SOLA; and the Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival in Palm Springs. He has been artist in residence at Skidmore College in New York, and at the Orange County High School of the Arts (OCHSA) in Southern California, and he has choreographed on the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company for the Ballet Pacifica Academy production of The Nutcracker. Sergio Trombetta, the dance critic for Danza & Danza , wrote that Johnson's premiere for the 2003 Fabbrica Europa Dance Festival, Moto-Bio: Bodies in Movement, was “a work of extraordinary interest,” and the Glendale News Press reported that Johnson's My Breath Comes Differently was the "best performance of the evening" in Celebrate Dance 2010. Johnson is currently an Associate Professor in the Dance Department at California State University, Long Beach, where he teaches courses in ballet technique and composition. His writings on dance have been published in academic journals and in such magazines as Dance International. He has B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Southern California.

	Contributions Please consider a contribution to help BCD with securing venues and rehearsal costs for the creation of new work. Any amount is appreciated. Body Current Dance receives its non-profit status through fiscal sponsorship with the Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles. The DRC is committed to supporting the dance community of Greater LA since 1987. For more information visit: www.drc-la.org Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles, PO Box 41092, Los Angeles, CA 90042. To make a tax-deductible contribution, please contact the artistic director by email or at the mailing address below to ensure proper processing of funds. Lorin Johnson, Artistic Director, Body Current Dance Dance Department California State University, Long Beach 1250 Bellflower Blvd Long Beach, CA 90840 562-985-7039 info@bodycurrent.org Body Current Dance EIN: 27-3272094