Johanna Bundon

SELECT PROJECTS 2023-24

SOLO SHOW TONIGHT

Photo credit: Daniel Torres, courtesy of Mile Zero Dance

Lovingly subtitled ‘a tale of self-sufficiency’, this solo follows a clown-like character, “The Soloist, XOXO”, as they schlep  their way through the everyday work of art-making to unfold a series of performance actions in real time. This performance considers the independent artist as a renaissance human whose skill set is necessarily robust and evolving to meet first aid technical issues, shoe repair, public relations, marketing, and identity crisis.

Equal parts anxiety and conviction for the necessity of art at the end of the world, 'SOLO SHOW TONIGHT' highlights the compulsion to make, the hilarity/stress of self-production, and the lonely edges of independence.

This sometimes site-specific & adaptable work wanders and takes shape in available and formal spaces. Much thanks to recent hosts of the work-in-development.

• Neutral Ground (Untitled Peter Tripp Project Dunlop Art Gallery Performance Residency), Zoom (2021)

• PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, SK (2022)

• Sask Arts Alliance Annual AGM, Leader Building Parkade, Regina, SK (2022)

• Struts Gallery, Open Studio Residency, Sackville, NB (2023)

• New Dance Horizons Blueprint (June 2024)

• The Magpie Collection: A Dance Festival in Edmonton, (July 2024)

FELDENKRAIS INTO DANCE RESEARCH

Ongoing Fall / Winter 2023 - 2024

This project has me focused on peer support for growth & training. Learning & teaching as a reciprocal cycle of care. This is a research space that supports reflection on my own dance training & seeks to support peer artists on their unique journeys to move sustainably and pleasurably over time.

In 2013, I sustained a movement injury that paused my dancing and left me re-considering my mechanics and my livelihood. I was deeply supported by training in the Feldenkrais Method Ⓡ. My deep gratitude to the San Diego professional Program, my teacher Elizabeth Beringer, and all of the faculty who supported my process.

Artists, please be in touch if you want to talk:

• Sustainable Training for Contemporary Dancers

• Love for somatic education

• Somatic Influence on Contemporary Dance Technique

• Training in community !

• Building networks of support within the Regina contemporary dance community

• Supporting sustainable practice & professional growth in the arts

• Mid-career professional development

Research Winter 2024 supported by Dance Saskatchewan Inc. Mentorship Grant.

An anvil, a coil, a patterned ocean

by BundonPfeiferHenderson

September 2023

Alongside Lee Henderson & Jayden Pfeifer, I was invited to participate in MAGDANCE5. Together, we created a choreogaphic response to Bras de plomb (1993) — the set collaboratively designed by Paul André Fortier in dialogue with the renowned Montreal artist Betty Goodwin.

Photo Credit Daniel Paquet 2023

Untitled Peter Tripp Project

created by Johanna Bundon, Jayden Pfeifer, and Lee Henderson.

Available for Touring.