jhon r. stronks

Choreographer

is often accused of presenting his audiences with seemingly disobedient work that behaves according to its own sanity. Stronks' passion for giving address to the gaps between what is perceived and what is present usually lands his work somewhere between a cry for personal consciousness and a plea for social justice. jhon’s choreography combines the fundamental elements of composition and choreography, with a convergence of movement styles and techniques drawn from his personal movement foundation in Modern, Post-Modern, Jazz, Classical Ballet and Africanist dance training. From this place, Stronks dives into the deep end experimenting with alternative dance making structures that are more intuitive and often erratic. The result is often the creation of a free space for the dancing to inhabit, where the context is clear; the eye has choices, and the viewer gets to decide. jhon is the recipient of two 2008 Buff Orpington Awards for Houston Contemporary Dance Achievement, Best Choreographic Work Under 15 Minutes for A View From The Edge and Best Choreographic Work 15 to 40 Minutes for O.K. I'm here... now what? jhon’s choreography has been commissioned by The Houston Metropolitan Dance Center, The Houston Black Dance Festival, The South Dallas Dance Festival, Big Range Dance Festival, Mix Match Dance Festival, The Fresno Dance Collective, Pilot Festival Dallas, CORE Performance Company, and Moving in the Spirit. His most recent full length work; “Love and Incarceration: The bankruptcy of righteousness and wrongdoing” premiered at Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles as part of Behold: A Queer Performance Festival in July 2010. www.thereinthesunlight.com