Johanna S. Meyer

Johanna S. Meyer’s Handbuilt, section three is an ensemble piece expanding on her previously developed duet material derived from John Woo’s 1989 Hong Kong cult movie, The Killer. Drawing on the absurdly operatic plot, Meyer’s choreography weaves the movie’s editing, choreographic gun battles, kitsch, and sentimentality as a starting point for this next show.

Johanna S. Meyer is a choreographer based in NYC. Her three full-length dance works include Every Hotel TV Plays On and Teaser. Piece.piece (2015) was performed at the Gibney Dance Center. She has also created 18 shorter pieces, many in collaboration with Alexandra Hartmann, Tory Vazquez, Maja Rajenovich, and Ahalya Satkunaratnam. Comedic and intricate, her work sometimes employs video and often draws on historical material such as burlesque routines, medical textbooks, and vintage films; she works with highly defined lines of space to execute these ideas. She is thrilled to have made many works for Performance Mix over the years. Meyer was an artist-in-residence at Movement Research, and has developed her work at The Kitchen’s Dance-in-Progress series, White Oak Dance Project, BAX Space Grant, the University of Santa Barbara Summer Theater Lab, and LiftOff Residency, among other spaces.

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