Adjunct Faculty - Dance
Linda K. Johnson has been a professional dance-based, interdisciplinary artist for 40 years. Over her four decades of creative practice, Johnson has taught, performed, created, curated, and produced extensively, influencing and forwarding the development of infrastructure, funding, and conceptual networks for professional artists and students. Her concerns as an artist are social and environmental, and address our collective relationship to site, place and community. Since creating her first site-based, large-scale interdisciplinary performance in 1992, Johnson has gone on to author over 17 major dance/movement installation works which have utilized Portland’s forests, urban intersections, waterways, derelict lots, neighborhoods, green spaces, public parks, as well as formal spaces, as staging grounds for presentation. She is a custodian of Yvonne Rainer’s seminal post-modern work, Trio A, and is a deeply practiced somatic educator, sustaining a private Alexander Technique Practice in the Portland area.