TEACHING YOUNG PEOPLE

Dancing Words - performances and residencies for schools
Johanna offers an educationally inspiring and creatively engaging program that brings poetry to life. In her performances and residencies, Johanna uses interactive stories, poems and dances to spark interest in the arts and engage students’ imaginations. Students leave performances smiling, inspired to write poems and make dances that tell the stories they live. Residencies culminate with showings and/or publications of student work.

Grrrls Speak
Ranging in age from 11 to 14, the group meets every Monday afternoon to tell the stories of their days and spin words and movements into tangible, subtle art. Johanna founded this group six years ago with 9-12 year old girls, and watched the group grow up as the girls did, settling finally into the 11-14 age range. Each year a different and uniquely its own group forms and works together for the full year, publishing a book of original writing and producing a full-length, grrrl-created performance of dance, theater and spoken word. Click here to find out more.

TEACHING ADULTS

Fearless Solos - Workshop for adults
In this weekly class, we'll explore ways of sourcing material for solo performance, and ways of putting our work into our bodies and into the performance space. We'll draw from a variety of movement, writing and physical theater exercises to create embodied performances that tell our stories and speak our truths. Come play with your marvelous voice, your exquisite body, your ordinary stories, your reliable mistakes, your words whispered from behind closed doors, your name shouted from a mountaintop. More info