Bernard Brown
email   Phone:  323.205.3455

Bernard Brown's dance pieces, ""�my life as an onion�" and "Com�on now!" were recently shown on February 9th and 10th, 2007, at Patrick's Cabaret in Minneapolis.

Bernard Brown's biography:

Dancer:

• Doug Elkins Dance Company (New York, NY) touring Europe and stateside

• bopi�s black sheep/dances by kraig patterson (New York, NY) 

• Shapiro and Smith Dance (Brooklyn, NY) for 5 seasons (Brooklyn, NY)

• Louis Johnson Dance Theatre Ensemble (New York, NY)

• TU Dance Company (MInneapolis, MN))

 
Choreographer:

• �C�mon Now� Patrick's Cabaret (Minneapolis, MN)

• �Treemonisha� by Scott Joplin, Skylark Opera (formerly North Star Opera) (Minneapolis, MN) 

• Others:  �Black Moon Rising�, �Love Songs�, �Losing Momentum�

 
Dance Teacher:

• Lula Washington Dance Theatre (California)

• Tisch School of the Arts at NYU (New York City)

• Tappan Zee Dance Group (Westchester, NY)

• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)

• Zenon Dance (MInneapolis, MN)

• Ballare Teatro (Minneapolis, MN)

 
Featured Work:

• �Grant Me Serenity, Courage, And Humility��

  • Bernard Brown is investigating the bipolar sense of home and community African-Americans feel as a result of the conflict between the US's melting pot and African-American's uprooting from their native Africa

  • Impetus:  

    • Dialogues about many African-American's lack of:

      • Solid family structure, home life

      • Community, father figures, role models/cultural leaders

      • Connections to a �homeland� distant in miles and conscientiousness or to their fellow African-Americans;

    • Our use of outside sources to fill these voids with materialism, sex, and drugs

  • Jimi Hendrix symbolism (artist of multiracial heritage)

    • Transformation into a poster boy for America's  sense of innovation and its melding of cultures and peoples

    • Short life journey and his battles 

    • Unbalanced sense of self, culturally (through race & nation), musically and emotionally. 

    • Legacy of defiance and triumphs

  • Music: a live recording of Jimi Hendrix�s �The Star Spangled Banner�

• ��my life as an onion��

  • Layered, literally and figuratively, revising Brown's first Minnesotan winter as an outsider as a gay Black Male Artist from Los Angeles. 

  • Learning quickly that to layer is to be warm, layering also works on many levels

    • Interpersonal

    • Spiritual

    • Protection from the elements and �Minnesota nice"

  • �Peel away�peel away�� the calloused layers built up over the seasons�

• �M.H.B.Y.�

  • �Ever laugh because you couldn�t cry no mo�?�  - Bernard Brown

  • Abstract family journal

  • Inner life of struggle, joie de vivre and endurance

  • Music:  Bjork "Frosti" and others

   

Bernard Brown
bbmoves09@aol.com
612.205.3455 mobile, 651.251.3915 landline
myspace.com screen name: bbexperiences

Carleton Artist Lofts (CAL), Building B
2285 University Avenue, #303 (Click for map)
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114