Johanna Householder
choreographic collaborator

Johanna Householder’s interest in how ideas shape bodies has led her often collaborative practice in choreography, performance art, video and other media. As a member of the feminist performance ensemble, The Clichettes (with Janice Hladki and Louise Garfield), she helped establish lip sync as a viable medium for political critique. Her live performance and video works have been presented across Canada and at international venues. She is keenly interested in the embodiments and histories of live art as lodged between archives and repertoires. She co-founded Danceworks in 1978, and she is also one of the founders of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. With Tanya Mars, she co-edited two books: Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women (2004), and More Caught in the Act (2016). She is professor emerita in the Faculty of Art and Graduate Studies at OCADU.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Johanna’s original work WKEY (1975) was distilled and adapted for the stage play Beautiful Renegades, and then filmed for Choreographic Gems.

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