faculty
Lorin Johnson
- Faculty – Lauridsen Ballet Centre
- Choreographer
Lorin Johnson danced with the San Francisco Ballet before joining the American Ballet Theatre in New York in 1987 under the directorship of Mikhail Baryshnikov. Johnson performed at ABT until 1995, creating original roles in ballets by Ulysses Dove, Clark Tippet and Agnes DeMille, among others, and working with some of the 20th century’s most influential choreographers, including Glen Tetley, Kenneth Macmillan, Twyla Tharp, and Jerome Robbins. His choreography has been commissioned in the US and abroad, and in 2003 he choreographed and produced an evening of dance at the renowned dance festival at the Fabbrica Europa in Florence, Italy. His premiere for the festival, Moto-bio: Bodies in Motion was hailed by the dance critic of Danza & Danza as “a work of extraordinary interest.” Johnson has been on faculty of the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensives program since 2004. In 2005 he directed the Ballet Pacifica Academy in Southern California. In 2006, Johnson became an Assistant Professor of Dance at California State University, Long Beach, where he teaches courses in ballet technique, dance appreciation and history. Johnson has both B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Southern California.
