[3][4] Johnson has danced for Minneapolis-based choreographers Morgan Thorson, Hijack, and BodyCartography Project,[2] and collaborated with New York-based playwright/ director Lisa D'Amour and music ensemble So Percussion, as well as Korean visual artist Minouk Lim.
[13] In Vermont,[14] Minnesota,[15] Alaska, California, and Arizona,[16] she invited members of the community to sew fish skin together to form lanterns.
[17] Johnson organized a recent work, Then a cunning voice and a night we spend gazing at stars, with community quiltmaking workshops.
As Vermont Performance Lab director Sara Coffey observes, there may be a tension between artistic vision and openness to community: "I think it's very brave in the contemporary dance world to let all these others into your work... You don't always have control of what that's going to be.
[12] Johnson attempts to resolve this tension through dynamism, described in the Anchorage Museum's Polar Lab blog as using "dance as a framework for constant transformation that refuses to stabilize, intervention immediately opens up for exchange, conversation and partnership" (anonymous account,[18]).