Dance, De Montfort University
Thesis title:
The Collaborative Doctoral Award works alongside with FABRIC, a Dance Arts Strategic Development Organisation, to develop a framework that assists the organisation in understanding how to curate an archive based on their historical and current work. The framework focuses on archives developed outside of GLAM (Gallery, Library, Archive, and Museum) institutions and how they may be constructed to be practical and sustainable. The research also takes an analytical lens to understand how the archive may then be refocused to inform the organisation on areas of growth.
Johnson, A. (2024) Locating Dance Exhibitions in the Digital Public Space: Reviewing the Current Landscape of Public Digital Dance Histories. Dance Context Journal. Iss.1, pp.30-37.
Johnson, A. (2023) ‘Black Women of The Cakewalk: Reclaiming The Performance Through Corporeal Orature’, Istanbul University Journal of Women’s Studies, 0(26), pp. 45-63. https://doi.org/10.26650/iukad.2023.qe00003 (12 Oct. 2023).
Johnson, A., Lessey, R., O'Reilly, R. R., & Shi, J. (2022). Moving In-Frame: Creativity Through Reflection Within Digital Spaces. In A. Raj (Ed.), Creativity as Progressive Pedagogy: Examinations Into Culture, Performance, and Challenges (pp. 217-234). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8287-9.ch011
Johnson, A. (2025, November 25) Performative Archives: A Choreographic Model for Documenting the Now. [Invited Speaker]. Universidad Iberoamericana de Mexico.
Johnson, A. (2025, September 18) Framework of Practice in the Construction of Archival Documents. [Research Presentation]. Association of Performing Arts Collections.
Johnson, A (2024, July 24) Constructing Identity through the Building of an Archive. [Conference Presentation]. Dance Studies Association: Cartographies of Movement.
Johnson, A (2024, June 24) Building Archives within Dance Arts Organisations : Frameworks and Challenges. [Conference Presentation]. SIBMAS: Dramaturgies of Collecting: Conserving, Restaging, and Interpreting the Performing Arts.
Johnson, A (2024, June 21) Dancing Between two Cities : the formation of an archive through the history of a 'new' organisation. [Conference Presentation]. PSI 29: Assemble.
Johnson, A. (2024, March 22) Crafting collaborative narratives on identity: Building archives within, across, and between dance cultures. [Conference Presentation]. Subject/Object/Practice/Place: Connecting Creatively through the Performing Arts, Valletta, Malta.
Johnson, A. (2023, December 12) Frameworks for co-creating archives [Conference Presentation]. Crossed Archives International Conference, Porto, Portugal.
Johnson, A. with Fabric (2025, October 25) nottdance as place: nottdance in Data & Narratives of Dance in Nottingham. [Archival Exhibition]. Nottdance Festival, Nottingham, UK. https://fabric.dance/tune-in-dance-moves-people-fabrics-brand-new-podcast-is-here/
Johnson, A., Gee, B., Greenfield, J., Napier, N., Russ, P. (2025, October 23) nottdance: four curators in conversation part 1 & 2. dance moves people [Podcast Episode]. Fabric, Birmingham & Nottingham, UK.
Co-convener for the Digital Methods for Humanities Research Symposium (19 May 2025).
Co-Convener of the Dancing with Decolonisation Conference
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