About Johanna
Johanna Walker is an educator, writer, and performing artist living in Boulder, CO. She teaches and directs regular folks in making strong and vibrant solo performances, challenges police officers to offer resource and listen while staying safe as a crisis intervention role-player, and helps girls and their parents practice skills for healthy conflict through educational theater.
She’s got a strong practice in authentic movement and contact improvisation, grows and eats food from her garden, rides her bike whenever she can, and gleefully takes the bus around town using her prized Neighborhood ECO-pass, a regional bus pass in the Boulder/Denver area.
Fearless Solos: writing and performing your stories
In this ten week series, we’ll explore ways of sourcing material for solo performance and ways of putting our work into our bodies and our voices, and into the performance space. We’ll write with our pens and our bodies and our voices as we draw from a variety of movement, writing and physical theater exercises–creating embodied performances that tell our stories and speak our truths. The class will culminate in an informal performance of our work together.
Girls Leadership Institute
The Girls Leadership Institute inspires girls to be true to themselves. We teach the practices of emotional intelligence, assertive self-expression and healthy relationships, giving girls the skills and confidence to live as leaders.
Crisis Intervention Team
We are a Company of Actors providing live-action, scenario-based training to members of the Law Enforcement community. Our mission is to give First Responders the tools to more effectively interact with the mentally-challenged civilian population.
"The greatest treasure in life is being able to be who you actually are."