Pascal Johnson †
Choreographer. Movement Director. Creative Producer.
NYC
Ex. Dutch National Ballet

The present is to live or to lose: In conversation with movement director and former ballet dancer Pascal Johnson
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Pascal Johnson, @pascaljohnson a former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, now a movement director and producer who has worked for brands like Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike, on a photo series that grew into something deeper. What started as a visual exploration turned into a dialogue about presence, memory, and what exactly an image can and cannot truly hold. Together, we approached the process as an open-ended reflection, using movement and stillness through the visual medium of photography to investigate how the body carries memory and inhabits the present.
At the heart of this series is a complicated question: can we ever really preserve something fleeting? We often believe that by permanently affixing a body into image that we are holding on to something true. But permanence does not equal meaning. Time strips away context, and leaves behind a thin surface, a static impression of a figure that once moved with thought, fear, laughter, and love. What is left is a fossil of ego, a trace of something that was never meant to be still.
Read full story @c41magazine
Words: Aaron Alan Mitchell & Pascal Johnson
Photography: Aaron Alan Mitchell @aaronalanmitchell
Performer: Pascal Johnson @pascaljohnson
Styling: Uliana Milodan @milodya
Skirts: Britt Liberg @skirts_by_britt_liberg

The present is to live or to lose: In conversation with movement director and former ballet dancer Pascal Johnson
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Pascal Johnson, @pascaljohnson a former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, now a movement director and producer who has worked for brands like Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike, on a photo series that grew into something deeper. What started as a visual exploration turned into a dialogue about presence, memory, and what exactly an image can and cannot truly hold. Together, we approached the process as an open-ended reflection, using movement and stillness through the visual medium of photography to investigate how the body carries memory and inhabits the present.
At the heart of this series is a complicated question: can we ever really preserve something fleeting? We often believe that by permanently affixing a body into image that we are holding on to something true. But permanence does not equal meaning. Time strips away context, and leaves behind a thin surface, a static impression of a figure that once moved with thought, fear, laughter, and love. What is left is a fossil of ego, a trace of something that was never meant to be still.
Read full story @c41magazine
Words: Aaron Alan Mitchell & Pascal Johnson
Photography: Aaron Alan Mitchell @aaronalanmitchell
Performer: Pascal Johnson @pascaljohnson
Styling: Uliana Milodan @milodya
Skirts: Britt Liberg @skirts_by_britt_liberg

The present is to live or to lose: In conversation with movement director and former ballet dancer Pascal Johnson
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Pascal Johnson, @pascaljohnson a former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, now a movement director and producer who has worked for brands like Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike, on a photo series that grew into something deeper. What started as a visual exploration turned into a dialogue about presence, memory, and what exactly an image can and cannot truly hold. Together, we approached the process as an open-ended reflection, using movement and stillness through the visual medium of photography to investigate how the body carries memory and inhabits the present.
At the heart of this series is a complicated question: can we ever really preserve something fleeting? We often believe that by permanently affixing a body into image that we are holding on to something true. But permanence does not equal meaning. Time strips away context, and leaves behind a thin surface, a static impression of a figure that once moved with thought, fear, laughter, and love. What is left is a fossil of ego, a trace of something that was never meant to be still.
Read full story @c41magazine
Words: Aaron Alan Mitchell & Pascal Johnson
Photography: Aaron Alan Mitchell @aaronalanmitchell
Performer: Pascal Johnson @pascaljohnson
Styling: Uliana Milodan @milodya
Skirts: Britt Liberg @skirts_by_britt_liberg

The present is to live or to lose: In conversation with movement director and former ballet dancer Pascal Johnson
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Pascal Johnson, @pascaljohnson a former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, now a movement director and producer who has worked for brands like Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike, on a photo series that grew into something deeper. What started as a visual exploration turned into a dialogue about presence, memory, and what exactly an image can and cannot truly hold. Together, we approached the process as an open-ended reflection, using movement and stillness through the visual medium of photography to investigate how the body carries memory and inhabits the present.
At the heart of this series is a complicated question: can we ever really preserve something fleeting? We often believe that by permanently affixing a body into image that we are holding on to something true. But permanence does not equal meaning. Time strips away context, and leaves behind a thin surface, a static impression of a figure that once moved with thought, fear, laughter, and love. What is left is a fossil of ego, a trace of something that was never meant to be still.
Read full story @c41magazine
Words: Aaron Alan Mitchell & Pascal Johnson
Photography: Aaron Alan Mitchell @aaronalanmitchell
Performer: Pascal Johnson @pascaljohnson
Styling: Uliana Milodan @milodya
Skirts: Britt Liberg @skirts_by_britt_liberg

The present is to live or to lose: In conversation with movement director and former ballet dancer Pascal Johnson
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Pascal Johnson, @pascaljohnson a former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, now a movement director and producer who has worked for brands like Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike, on a photo series that grew into something deeper. What started as a visual exploration turned into a dialogue about presence, memory, and what exactly an image can and cannot truly hold. Together, we approached the process as an open-ended reflection, using movement and stillness through the visual medium of photography to investigate how the body carries memory and inhabits the present.
At the heart of this series is a complicated question: can we ever really preserve something fleeting? We often believe that by permanently affixing a body into image that we are holding on to something true. But permanence does not equal meaning. Time strips away context, and leaves behind a thin surface, a static impression of a figure that once moved with thought, fear, laughter, and love. What is left is a fossil of ego, a trace of something that was never meant to be still.
Read full story @c41magazine
Words: Aaron Alan Mitchell & Pascal Johnson
Photography: Aaron Alan Mitchell @aaronalanmitchell
Performer: Pascal Johnson @pascaljohnson
Styling: Uliana Milodan @milodya
Skirts: Britt Liberg @skirts_by_britt_liberg

The present is to live or to lose: In conversation with movement director and former ballet dancer Pascal Johnson
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Pascal Johnson, @pascaljohnson a former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, now a movement director and producer who has worked for brands like Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike, on a photo series that grew into something deeper. What started as a visual exploration turned into a dialogue about presence, memory, and what exactly an image can and cannot truly hold. Together, we approached the process as an open-ended reflection, using movement and stillness through the visual medium of photography to investigate how the body carries memory and inhabits the present.
At the heart of this series is a complicated question: can we ever really preserve something fleeting? We often believe that by permanently affixing a body into image that we are holding on to something true. But permanence does not equal meaning. Time strips away context, and leaves behind a thin surface, a static impression of a figure that once moved with thought, fear, laughter, and love. What is left is a fossil of ego, a trace of something that was never meant to be still.
Read full story @c41magazine
Words: Aaron Alan Mitchell & Pascal Johnson
Photography: Aaron Alan Mitchell @aaronalanmitchell
Performer: Pascal Johnson @pascaljohnson
Styling: Uliana Milodan @milodya
Skirts: Britt Liberg @skirts_by_britt_liberg

The present is to live or to lose: In conversation with movement director and former ballet dancer Pascal Johnson
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Pascal Johnson, @pascaljohnson a former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, now a movement director and producer who has worked for brands like Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike, on a photo series that grew into something deeper. What started as a visual exploration turned into a dialogue about presence, memory, and what exactly an image can and cannot truly hold. Together, we approached the process as an open-ended reflection, using movement and stillness through the visual medium of photography to investigate how the body carries memory and inhabits the present.
At the heart of this series is a complicated question: can we ever really preserve something fleeting? We often believe that by permanently affixing a body into image that we are holding on to something true. But permanence does not equal meaning. Time strips away context, and leaves behind a thin surface, a static impression of a figure that once moved with thought, fear, laughter, and love. What is left is a fossil of ego, a trace of something that was never meant to be still.
Read full story @c41magazine
Words: Aaron Alan Mitchell & Pascal Johnson
Photography: Aaron Alan Mitchell @aaronalanmitchell
Performer: Pascal Johnson @pascaljohnson
Styling: Uliana Milodan @milodya
Skirts: Britt Liberg @skirts_by_britt_liberg

The present is to live or to lose: In conversation with movement director and former ballet dancer Pascal Johnson
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Pascal Johnson, @pascaljohnson a former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, now a movement director and producer who has worked for brands like Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike, on a photo series that grew into something deeper. What started as a visual exploration turned into a dialogue about presence, memory, and what exactly an image can and cannot truly hold. Together, we approached the process as an open-ended reflection, using movement and stillness through the visual medium of photography to investigate how the body carries memory and inhabits the present.
At the heart of this series is a complicated question: can we ever really preserve something fleeting? We often believe that by permanently affixing a body into image that we are holding on to something true. But permanence does not equal meaning. Time strips away context, and leaves behind a thin surface, a static impression of a figure that once moved with thought, fear, laughter, and love. What is left is a fossil of ego, a trace of something that was never meant to be still.
Read full story @c41magazine
Words: Aaron Alan Mitchell & Pascal Johnson
Photography: Aaron Alan Mitchell @aaronalanmitchell
Performer: Pascal Johnson @pascaljohnson
Styling: Uliana Milodan @milodya
Skirts: Britt Liberg @skirts_by_britt_liberg

The present is to live or to lose: In conversation with movement director and former ballet dancer Pascal Johnson
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Pascal Johnson, @pascaljohnson a former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, now a movement director and producer who has worked for brands like Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike, on a photo series that grew into something deeper. What started as a visual exploration turned into a dialogue about presence, memory, and what exactly an image can and cannot truly hold. Together, we approached the process as an open-ended reflection, using movement and stillness through the visual medium of photography to investigate how the body carries memory and inhabits the present.
At the heart of this series is a complicated question: can we ever really preserve something fleeting? We often believe that by permanently affixing a body into image that we are holding on to something true. But permanence does not equal meaning. Time strips away context, and leaves behind a thin surface, a static impression of a figure that once moved with thought, fear, laughter, and love. What is left is a fossil of ego, a trace of something that was never meant to be still.
Read full story @c41magazine
Words: Aaron Alan Mitchell & Pascal Johnson
Photography: Aaron Alan Mitchell @aaronalanmitchell
Performer: Pascal Johnson @pascaljohnson
Styling: Uliana Milodan @milodya
Skirts: Britt Liberg @skirts_by_britt_liberg

The present is to live or to lose: In conversation with movement director and former ballet dancer Pascal Johnson
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Pascal Johnson, @pascaljohnson a former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, now a movement director and producer who has worked for brands like Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike, on a photo series that grew into something deeper. What started as a visual exploration turned into a dialogue about presence, memory, and what exactly an image can and cannot truly hold. Together, we approached the process as an open-ended reflection, using movement and stillness through the visual medium of photography to investigate how the body carries memory and inhabits the present.
At the heart of this series is a complicated question: can we ever really preserve something fleeting? We often believe that by permanently affixing a body into image that we are holding on to something true. But permanence does not equal meaning. Time strips away context, and leaves behind a thin surface, a static impression of a figure that once moved with thought, fear, laughter, and love. What is left is a fossil of ego, a trace of something that was never meant to be still.
Read full story @c41magazine
Words: Aaron Alan Mitchell & Pascal Johnson
Photography: Aaron Alan Mitchell @aaronalanmitchell
Performer: Pascal Johnson @pascaljohnson
Styling: Uliana Milodan @milodya
Skirts: Britt Liberg @skirts_by_britt_liberg

The present is to live or to lose: In conversation with movement director and former ballet dancer Pascal Johnson
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Pascal Johnson, @pascaljohnson a former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, now a movement director and producer who has worked for brands like Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike, on a photo series that grew into something deeper. What started as a visual exploration turned into a dialogue about presence, memory, and what exactly an image can and cannot truly hold. Together, we approached the process as an open-ended reflection, using movement and stillness through the visual medium of photography to investigate how the body carries memory and inhabits the present.
At the heart of this series is a complicated question: can we ever really preserve something fleeting? We often believe that by permanently affixing a body into image that we are holding on to something true. But permanence does not equal meaning. Time strips away context, and leaves behind a thin surface, a static impression of a figure that once moved with thought, fear, laughter, and love. What is left is a fossil of ego, a trace of something that was never meant to be still.
Read full story @c41magazine
Words: Aaron Alan Mitchell & Pascal Johnson
Photography: Aaron Alan Mitchell @aaronalanmitchell
Performer: Pascal Johnson @pascaljohnson
Styling: Uliana Milodan @milodya
Skirts: Britt Liberg @skirts_by_britt_liberg

The present is to live or to lose: In conversation with movement director and former ballet dancer Pascal Johnson
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Pascal Johnson, @pascaljohnson a former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, now a movement director and producer who has worked for brands like Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike, on a photo series that grew into something deeper. What started as a visual exploration turned into a dialogue about presence, memory, and what exactly an image can and cannot truly hold. Together, we approached the process as an open-ended reflection, using movement and stillness through the visual medium of photography to investigate how the body carries memory and inhabits the present.
At the heart of this series is a complicated question: can we ever really preserve something fleeting? We often believe that by permanently affixing a body into image that we are holding on to something true. But permanence does not equal meaning. Time strips away context, and leaves behind a thin surface, a static impression of a figure that once moved with thought, fear, laughter, and love. What is left is a fossil of ego, a trace of something that was never meant to be still.
Read full story @c41magazine
Words: Aaron Alan Mitchell & Pascal Johnson
Photography: Aaron Alan Mitchell @aaronalanmitchell
Performer: Pascal Johnson @pascaljohnson
Styling: Uliana Milodan @milodya
Skirts: Britt Liberg @skirts_by_britt_liberg

More movement for a crowd surfing @goldbandnl
CREW
Photographer: Nick van Tiem @nickvantiem
Art director: Suze Kuit @suzekuit
Movement: 🙋🏻♂️@pascaljohnson
Production company: Wolfstreet @wolfstreetagency
Producer: Tess Wijker @tesswijker
Producer: Maaike Raat @maaikesofie_raat
Production manager: Floortje Sprenkels @floortjesprenkels
Digi operator: Lukas Kwiatek @ lukaskwiatek
Gaffer: Hyung Balkema @ hyungbalkema
Stylist: Nikki Vekemans @nikkivekemans
Stylist/Art assistant: Knud Otten @knuddd
MUAH: Alexander van der Heijde @alexandervdheide
MUAH assistant: Ira Hutter @ira.h_
MUAH assistant: Lara Scheepers @larascheepers
MUAH assistant: Kris van Laerhoven @krisvanlaerhoven
Post-production photography: Michael Frahm @michaelfrahm.postproduction @imposter_studios
Creative Direction: Luka Kueter @luka.f.k
Project Management: Brenda Narvaez @brendayemina
Artist Management: Luka Kueter & Dominique van Rhee @unisex.management

More movement for a crowd surfing @goldbandnl
CREW
Photographer: Nick van Tiem @nickvantiem
Art director: Suze Kuit @suzekuit
Movement: 🙋🏻♂️@pascaljohnson
Production company: Wolfstreet @wolfstreetagency
Producer: Tess Wijker @tesswijker
Producer: Maaike Raat @maaikesofie_raat
Production manager: Floortje Sprenkels @floortjesprenkels
Digi operator: Lukas Kwiatek @ lukaskwiatek
Gaffer: Hyung Balkema @ hyungbalkema
Stylist: Nikki Vekemans @nikkivekemans
Stylist/Art assistant: Knud Otten @knuddd
MUAH: Alexander van der Heijde @alexandervdheide
MUAH assistant: Ira Hutter @ira.h_
MUAH assistant: Lara Scheepers @larascheepers
MUAH assistant: Kris van Laerhoven @krisvanlaerhoven
Post-production photography: Michael Frahm @michaelfrahm.postproduction @imposter_studios
Creative Direction: Luka Kueter @luka.f.k
Project Management: Brenda Narvaez @brendayemina
Artist Management: Luka Kueter & Dominique van Rhee @unisex.management

More movement for a crowd surfing @goldbandnl
CREW
Photographer: Nick van Tiem @nickvantiem
Art director: Suze Kuit @suzekuit
Movement: 🙋🏻♂️@pascaljohnson
Production company: Wolfstreet @wolfstreetagency
Producer: Tess Wijker @tesswijker
Producer: Maaike Raat @maaikesofie_raat
Production manager: Floortje Sprenkels @floortjesprenkels
Digi operator: Lukas Kwiatek @ lukaskwiatek
Gaffer: Hyung Balkema @ hyungbalkema
Stylist: Nikki Vekemans @nikkivekemans
Stylist/Art assistant: Knud Otten @knuddd
MUAH: Alexander van der Heijde @alexandervdheide
MUAH assistant: Ira Hutter @ira.h_
MUAH assistant: Lara Scheepers @larascheepers
MUAH assistant: Kris van Laerhoven @krisvanlaerhoven
Post-production photography: Michael Frahm @michaelfrahm.postproduction @imposter_studios
Creative Direction: Luka Kueter @luka.f.k
Project Management: Brenda Narvaez @brendayemina
Artist Management: Luka Kueter & Dominique van Rhee @unisex.management
“The very ground for which I prepared myself to stand on shifts. Cement that I poured, stones that I laid, split
to reveal an earth underneath” Poem by Clara Superfine
New Earth a film by Pascal Johnson and Clara Superfine
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Directed and Produced by: Pascal Johnson and Clara Superfine @pascaljohnson @csuperfine
Director of Photography: Natasha Duursma @tasha_duursma Performance: Clara Superfine
Original Score: Erland Cooper @erlandcooper
Choreography Pascal Johnson and Clara Superfine Editor: Lorna Searl @lornasearl #cutatTrim
Costume and Styling: Joline Kwakkenbos and Britt Liberg @brittliberg @jolinekwakenboss
Grade: Tim Smith @no8ldn @timotheous
First AC: Kasper Stegeman @kasperstegeman
Second AC: Berta Banacloche @bertabanacloche
Production Assistants: Sem Sjouke & James Stout @semsjouke @james_stout
BTS Photography: Dauphine Rosalie @dauphinerosalie
Supported by: Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst
@afk020
First day working on a new project! 🔥🔥
I’m making a duet for myself and @meganlecrone, which will premiere at Naples international dance festival!

🚨Life update! 🚨 After 9 years and 7.5 years respectively Loretta and I are moving to NYC, in just under 3 weeks! ✈️🗽🇺🇸
We are so looking forward to this next step and excited to see how God is going to provide and place us in this city!
We’re also going to miss Amsterdam what a gift it was to be here and journey with our community! Whether it has been Liberty Church, Dutch National Ballet, the Academy of Architecture or Wolfstreet. We’ll miss you all! ❤️❤️💙💙

🚨Life update! 🚨 After 9 years and 7.5 years respectively Loretta and I are moving to NYC, in just under 3 weeks! ✈️🗽🇺🇸
We are so looking forward to this next step and excited to see how God is going to provide and place us in this city!
We’re also going to miss Amsterdam what a gift it was to be here and journey with our community! Whether it has been Liberty Church, Dutch National Ballet, the Academy of Architecture or Wolfstreet. We’ll miss you all! ❤️❤️💙💙
Took class at Steps on broadway 🗽it’s a daily journey getting back in shape!
#ballet #dance #stepsonbroadway
Been loving getting in the studio creating and making! #ballet #groove #dance
Entering 2026 with joy and peace as I pursue a choreographic and freelance dance career full time!
Mathew 6v34
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