Oni Brown

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Dancer - Choreographer
As a dancer and choreographer, I enjoy learning and incorporating the awareness of self discovered in the cultural dances of the African Diaspora into my experimental contemporary choreography and improvisation. I am a member of, and have choreographed for Sounds of Afrika, Afrikan Drum and Dance Troupe (SOA). While living in Paris, I began a small contemporary dance troupe, FARO, and in 2005 was invited to teach a master class at Costa Rica’s Centro Nacional de la Danza’s Mudanzas II festival in San Jose. I have performed work with Gabrielle Lansner & Company, Emily Faulkner and 8 Reales.

My current work, Ogun to Oshun: An Afro-Caribbean Dance Performance, was created in part through The Field's Emerging Artist Residency program, supported by Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation. Fundraising for Orisha is made possible through fiscal sponsorship by Artspire, a program of New York Foundation for the Arts.

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Teacher 
I have taught at the Taller Nacional de la Danza in Costa Rica, and at various private schools and programs in Connecticut, including Miss Porter's School, Horizons Student Enrichment Program and Naugatuck Valley Community College as a member of SOA, Dancewave in Brooklyn, and as a teaching artist with The Connecticut Ballet Theatre. Trained across genres, I teach Contemporary, Creative Movement, Improvisation, Jazz, and West African. I trained with The Connecticut Ballet Theatre, Miss Porter's School, Daniel McCusker at Tufts University, La Sorbonne and the Centre National de la Danse in Paris, France. 


Breakfast - May 2010


SOA Solos -Lamban -  Fall, 2010


Sounds of Afrika, Afrikan Drum and Dance Troupe - July, 2009
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