Keith Johnson / Dancers - SERIES: Gun

Part of an evolving cycle of solo works built from a shared movement vocabulary, each iteration reshaped by a new score and shifting internal logic. Across versions, SERIES traces family, mortality, race, love, religion, and queer life—its repetitions accumulating like memory. SERIES: Gun emerges from a pattern that wouldn’t stay buried: the recurring presence of gun violence embedded in sound, culture, and the body. The work considers how that constant proximity—its threat, its normalization—filters into daily decisions, collective behavior, and artistic expression. What begins as structure becomes atmosphere; what repeats becomes inescapable.

Performed by a rotating cast of nationally recognized artists, the piece expands beyond the solo form—each body carrying the same material through different histories, geographies, and lived experience, refracting a shared choreography into multiple, unstable realities.

The cast includes Adriane Fang (Maryland), formerly of Doug Varone and Dancers and now faculty at the University of Maryland; Brad T. Garner (Philadelphia), a freelance choreographer and former department chair at the University of Oregon and Texas Christian University; Rosalynde LeBlanc (Los Angeles), a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker who has performed with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and White Oak Project and currently teaches at Loyola Marymount University; Eliza Loran (Los Angeles), an independent choreographer, director, and co-founder of the experimental queer movement collective GĒR; Tara McArthur (Salt Lake City), a dance artist and social worker, formerly of Ririe/Woodbury Dance Company, with collaborations spanning San Francisco and New York; and Andrew Merrell (Bay Area), a queer choreographer presenting work through Slack Dance, Vella & Merrell, and Stranger Lover Dreamer.