Philip Johnston

  2008            Armide

Choreography for Lully's Opera, Armide. University of Illinois, Opera Department.

2006          Abbi Ne Viderem

Work for ten dancers (reconstruction of my 1999 work to celebrate Helen Lewis). The Fisher Dance Foundation, Chicago. A celebration of women in history with works by Chicago choreographers.

2006          The Lark

Choreography for the University of Illinois, Theatre Department Production

2006          Spectre de la Rose

Reconstruction for Sinfonia da Camera with dancers from the Department of Dance. Duet. Music, Carl Maria Von Weber.

2006          L’Aprés midi d’un faune

Reconstruction for the Sinfonia da Camera with dancers from the Department of Dance.

Work for eight dancers. Music, Claude Debussy.

2005          Dancing At Lughnasa

Choreography for the Department of Theatre production of Brian Friel’s play.

2005          Capriol  Suite

Sinfonia da Camera with dancers from the Department of Dance.

Work for twelve dancers. Music, Peter Warlock.

2005          Oedipe

Choreography for the US premiere of Enscu’s opera Oedipe. Sinfonia da Camera

Duet. Music, George Enescu.

2005          Rodeo

Choreography for Sinfonia da Camera.

Work for eight dancers. Music, Aron Copland.

2005          Aqueous Currents

November Playhouse. The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

Work for six dancers. Music, John Kinsella and Eric Sweeney.

2005          Nevertheless

Belfast Dance Company. The Crescent Arts Center. United Kingdom.

2005          Sword Against The Sea

Choreography for an adaptation of the Cuchulain plays of W. B. Yeats. Indiana State University, Summer Theatre Festival.

2005          Abii ne Viderem

Festival Concert. The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

Work for six dancers. Music, Giya Kanchelli. (reconstruction)

2003          Fairy Queen

Choreography for Henry Purcell’s opera. Concerto Urbano. Urbana, IL

2003          Zephyre

Choreography for Concerto Urbano production of the opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau.

2003          Shadow Play

Music: Noel Coward. A dance/theater work based on Noel Coward’s play The Vortex. Illinois State Dance Theatre.   

2003          The Tempest

Choreography for William Shakespeare’s play. Illinois State University. School of Theatre.

2002          Do Not Go Gentle

Quartet. Music:  Vytautas Barkauskas. Illinois State Dance Theatre.

2001          Chants d’ Auvergne

Work for twelve dancers. Music: Marie Joseph De Malarat. Illinois State Dance Theatre.

2001          Aqueous Currents

Sextet. Music: Eric Sweeny and John Kinsella. Based on the  work of Alice Hammerslag.

Illinois State Dance Theatre.

2001          Fratacelli

Work for twelve dancers. Music: Electronica and Arvo Part. Illinois State Dance Theatre.

2001          Du bist die Ruh

Solo. Music: Franz Schubert. The American College Dance Festival. The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

2000          Miss Julie

Duet. Music: Bela Bartok. Illinois State Dance Theatre.

1999          Per Gynt

Re-staging of Ibsen’s play with Grieg’s incidental score. Directed by Ian Wooldridge with Sinfonia da Camera. The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Millikin University.

1999          Romeo and Juliet

Choreography for Illinois Repertory Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.          

1999          Beatles Suite

Work for ten dancers. Music, Beatles score. Illinois Dance Theatre.

1999              Action World

Guest Artist work for eight dancers for Illinois Wesleyan University. Music: David Byrne.

1999          Playboy

Work for twelve dancers. Music: Jonny Cunningham. Based on the play “Playboy of the Western World” by J. M. Synge. Illinois Dance Theatre.

1998          Telemann Suites

Work for eight dancers. Music by Georg Philipp Telemann. The Bach Ensemble of Urbana/Champaign.

1998          Dorian

Duet. Music: Ernesto Nazareth. Arvo Part, Symphonie No. 3. Illinois Dance Theatre.

1997          Afterlives

Solo. Spoken Text. The I-Space Gallery, Chicago.

1995          Twice Upon A Time

Work for twelve dancers. Music: Moondog. Illinois Dance Theatre.

1995          Something to Tell

Trio. Music: Jan Garbarek. Illinois Dance Theatre.

1995          At The Hawk’s Well and The King of the Great Clock Tower by W. B. Yeats.

Director and choreographer. Music, Tom Bourcier.

The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

1991          Tango Criollas

Quartet. Music: Alberto Gynastera. The Norwegian Modern Dance Company. Commissioned work.

1990          On This Shining Night          

Solo. Music: Franz Schubert. The Norwegian Modern Dance Company.

1989          Sonnets

Duet. Music: Rautavaara. The Norwegian Modern Dance Company.

 

1988          Lucy Jordan          

Sextet. Music: Marianne Faithful. Tonsberg Dance Theatre.

1987          Isblomsten

Duet. Music: Garbarek. Dance for film. The Norwegian Modern Dance Company.

1985          Back to Back

Quartet. Music: Philip Glass. Janet Smith and Dancers, London.

1982          Zero In

Trio. Music: Anton Webern. London School of Contemporary Dance.

1981          Jazz Fantasia

Solo. Spoken Text. London School of Contemporary Dance.

1980          Zorba

Choreography for the play Zorba the Greek. The Arts Theatre Belfast.

1978          The Herne’s Egg and The Shadowy Waters by W. B. Yeats.

Choreography for the Lyric Theatre production.

 

 

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