Johnston has been commissioned to choreograph a new work for "New Families/Constructed Identities", a multi-faceted Stanford performance project which will examine new constructions of family through the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and politics. Johnston has received critical acclaim as well as many distinguished awards, including numerous prestigious Lester Horton Awards for both choreography and performance, as Artistic Director of the dance company Ledges and Bones Dance Project. Johnston's most recent honor was selected to be the first choreographer for the Artist-in-Residence Program at ODC Theater in San Francisco. For the next three years, from 2009-2011, Ledges and Bones will rehearse and perform at ODC Theater, and they will call both Los Angeles and San Francisco home. Holly Johnston was born in South Korea and has lived in the United States since her adoption at the age of four. Spending most of her life preoccupied with physical play, she in now the artistic director of ledges and bones dance project. LABdp is a collection of contemporary dance artists collaborating to create original choreography through a rigorous process of improvisation, experimentation and repetition. Johnston was selected by Dance Magazine as one of their top 25 to Watch in 2007 for her fearless and fluid (Dance Magazine) approach to choreography. She is a performer, choreographer, and movement educator holding a BA in Dance from Loyola Marymount University.
