Anthony W Johnson
Choreographer / Dancer /Writer Anthony Johnson, the Artistic Director and creative force behind Ballet Magique has spent over two decades mesmerizing audiences throughout the country and the around the world with his unique and pointed artistic interpretation of form and movement.
By applying his supreme and unparalleled level of experience, having worked alongside some of the greatest entertainers of our time including; former Beatle Paul McCartney, and a collection of the worlds most prestigious Ballet and Opera companies, to what ultimately has been his lifelong vision of fusing dance, magic and martial arts, Johnson collaborated with and has been mentored by some of the world’s most prolific and accomplished engineers, magicians and technicians to produce what is destined to become a globally venerated, non-traditional art form.
3 LESTER HORTON AWARD NOMINATIONS!!!
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN :
CHOREOGRAPHY . LIGHTING . COSTUME DESIGN
About Me
Poetry
Taboo by Anthony W Johnson
Everything is cold. Do you know the taboo? Luck?
My words are subtle, careless, weighted and woven in fortune abused and misused, I sing in the snow with the shadow of insanity, while howling at the moon in gibberish profanities.
It’s Cold! Do you feel the chill? My lips are dry and the chitter-chatter in this bottle is making me hazy. My fortune is jarred, hardened by the misuse of lexis and marred by the inferior veracity of charity. Yeah, I am inside the mime and crime of rhythm. It is the old adage of Rock! Do you know the taboo? Luck?
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Johnson’s personal private students have been accepted or received scholarships to American Ballet
Theatre, School of American Ballet, The San Francisco Ballet School, The Houston Ballet, Boston Ballet School, Alvin Ailey and The Rock School of the Pennsylvania Ballet. They have also gone to soloist contracts with Hamburg Ballet, Columbia City Ballet, Ballet de Printemps American Ballet Theatre, and Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Cirque Du Soliel, and on Broadway in “Mama Mia”, Movin’ Out,” The
Lion King” Films like Across the Universe, Step up, You got Served, and have appeared on Dancing with the Stars. Some have also toured with Janet Jackson and Britney Spears and are in Germany’s production of “Cats”. From 2006-2009 Anthony was on the dance faculty at the Los Angeles County High School for
the Arts. He now teaches across the USA as well as abroad. As the Director of one of the hottest new performance companies.