BROOKE BROUSSARD - TOUCH
"Perfectly chilled, a dancer whose singular presence embodied and conveyed ideals....."Byron Woods, DURHAM INDEPENDENT
"Stand out performance, She moved with ease and grace, not at all inhibited by the viscous paint." DANCE MAGAZINE
"Brooke M. Broussard part of the duo in front, always in flux...." Anna Kisselgolf, NY TIMES
Brooke Broussard / Touch utilizes improvisation and pure movement to create work that is subtle and concentrates on the connection between mind and the intuitive body.
Through collaboration with other artists and the incorporation of neuro-science and technology, Touch explores its effect in multi-media art.
Artistic Director Brooke Broussard is an emerging choreographer whose work incorporates neuro science, emotional states and inventive, improvisational movement; culminating in a multi media performance that will be groundbreaking in the arts. Brooke strives to be a individual choreographer in the arts focusing on the dance community while also collaborating with musicians, visual artists, and advancing technologies. Her visions cross the line away from the typical dance performance into a new generation of tech savvy performance art.
Brooke Broussard is a native of Lafayette, Louisiana where she began to grow in modern dance. In 2000, Brooke earned a BFA in Dance from the University of Southern Mississippi where she studied under Patricia A. McOnnell as a scholarship student. In 1999 and 2000 Brooke was awarded scholarships to attend the American Dance Festival where she met Shen Wei. She moved to New York City where she became a founding company member of Shen Wei Dance Arts where she has danced since 2000. Brooke has created and performed her own choreography in New York at CBGBs, PS 122, Pianos, Louisiana Dance Festival, in San Francisco at NOHspace, ODC Pilot 52, LEVYDance Salon, and for West Wave Festival in 2008. Since her move back to New York Brooke has also worked with David Michalek for "Slow Dancing", BLAND design, Celia Rowlson Hall, Jon Pratt, Benton C. Bainbridge as well as Brooklyn Art Project for the Dumbo Art Gallery Walk.
Benton-C Bainbridge is an artist, designer and educator based in The Bronx. Bainbridge makes movies, installations, and live visual performances with custom digital, analog and optical systems of his own design. Inspired as a teen by early audiovisual bands, Benton-C has co-founded several live video collectives and is known for pioneering VJing on tours across 5 continents, collaborating with scores of artists around the world.
Bainbridge has shown and performed video on five continents in venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, American Museum of the Moving Image, The Kitchen (NYC), EMPAC (Troy, NY), the American Museum of Natural History, SFMoMA (San Francisco), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Dallas Video Festival, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Mercat des les Flors (Barcelona), LUX2006 (Sevilla), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Roma), Sonic Light (Amsterdam), Wien Moderne (Vienna), Inventionen (Berlin), Teatro Colón CETC (Buenos Aires), CELCIT (Managua), Korean Festival (Seoul), Good Vibrations (Australia), MTV Networks and Hotwired (global).
Currently, Benton-C Bainbridge is making slow motion video paintings and exhibiting in New York and Buenos Aires. With Minou Maguna he is creating dioramas, installations and performances of the expanded documentary "Brother Islands". With Glowing Pictures, Bainbridge is producing the visuals for One Step Beyond, a monthly event at American Museum of Natural History that The New Yorker calls 'New York's Best Museum Party'.
Sarah Lisette Chiesa attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and SUNY Purchase Dance Conservatory. She has performed works by Kazuko Hirabyashi, Ayako Kirakake, Kathryn Alter, Sidra Bell, Sue Bernard, Noemie LaFrance, Tania Perez-Salas, Jorge Estava, Steve Cook, and Chris Elam, and has presented her own choreography and video installations in Montreal, Venezuela, NYC, and San Francisco. She currently works with Shen Wei Dance Arts and Brooke Broussard-Touch.
Kristen Glennon began dancing as soon as she could. She was the one at recess with the boom box and the one tap dancing in the lunch line. Her love for movement has brought her to explore many different disciplines, from ballet to street styles. Kristen received a BFA in Dance from University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and then hit the road for San Francisco. In San Francisco she worked with some of the cities most notable B-boys, often performing in street shows and club events, while simultaneously continuing her classical studies at Lines Ballet.
Kristen is now based in Brooklyn, New York where she is a member of Brooke Broussard/TOUCH. She has also worked with Neal Medlyn, Charles Gushue, and Sarah Chiesa. Kristen also spends her time as a DJ, under the name Pozibelle, working in radio and on the club/party circuit.
Scott Marlowe recently moved to New York. For the past five years he has been a member of the San Francisco based company, LEVYdance, touring both nationally and internationally. He received his BFA in Dance from the University of Texas at Austin and is a graduate of the Booker T Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, where he began his training. Since moving to New York he has been working with Brooke Brousard, Kate Griffler, and Gage Boone as well as developing his own work.
Jonathan Melville Pratt is a composer, singer, percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer living in Brooklyn. Jonathan earned his bachelors degree in Classical Voice and Interdisciplinary Composition from The North Carolina School of the Arts in 2001. Jonathan has been commissioned to compose and perform original music for John Dillon, Brian Mertes, Trish Casey, Sean Sullivan, Erin Beneze, Alana Stroud, Alban Elved Dance Company, Djamilla Moore, Chih-Chun Huang, Sarah Percival, Mimi Garrard Dance Company, Via Dance Collaborative, Daniel Charon, Jennifer Nugent, Jonah Bokaer, Amelia Uzategui, The Julliard School of Dance, Cindy Salgado, Jessica Harris, and The Julliard School of Drama. Credits include: Dancing at Lunasa, The Lower Depths, The Ramayana, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, Tone Clusters, The Indian Wants the Bronx, Platonov, The Greeks: Part one- The War, The Brothers Size (New York Premier at The Public Theater), The Greeks: Part Two- The Murders, The Brothers Size (Irish premier at The Abbey Theatre), The Greeks: Part Three- The Gods, scores for Films by Mimi Garrard: A Dream with Three Brides, Frontpage, and Dreaming Chekhovs Dream, score (work in progress) Thirteen for Larry Keigwins Runaway at The Juilliard School, score Black Heart Pulling for Emery LeCrones Aphorismos at the Columbia University Ballet Collaborative, score for Nicole Wolcotts Verge, score and performance for Helen Simoneaus Adventures in a Foreign Land at the Joyce Soho, score Amniosis for Nicole Wolcott at Duo Theater, Scores for short films by JP Chan I Dont Sleep I Dream and Empire Corner, score Triptych for Larry Keigwins World Premier Triptych at The Joyce Theater, Score Two Way Dream (work in progress) for Camille Browns City of Rain at Princeton University, Score Phylum for Brooke Broussards Touch at dumbo art fair, and critically acclaimed score Thirteen for Keigwin and Companys Runaway at the Joyce Theater. Jonathan was recently awarded the Sacatar International Arts Fellowship in Bahia, Brazil. Jonathan also recently made his directorial/choreography debut creating a multi media works The Playdate And After Never with writer/poet Ian Merrigan. Jonathan is always at work as front man and artistic director for his multi-media performance group, The Dive. www.thedivemusic.com.
Chelsea Retzloff is originally from Eureka, CA where she began dancing with Jane Morgan. In high school, she trained with California State Summer School of the Arts, the Kirov Ballet Academy, and Alonzo Kings LINES Ballet. Chelsea graduated Magna Cum Laude from University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.F.A. in Dance and B.A. in Chemistry earning distinction in the major and winning the university wide- Daniel G. Aldrich Outstanding Senior Award. Her professional credits include dancing with Santa Barbara Dance Theater (China Tour 2007-2008), David Dorfman Dance (Underground), The MacArthur Dance Project, an apprentice with Shen Wei Dance Arts and in the works of Brooke Broussard, Nancy Colahan, Stephanie Nugent, Austin McCormick, Keith Johnson and the historic solo, Harmonica Breakdown by Jane Dudley.
VIDEO
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INFLUENCES
sirius
moving the dark
DUMBO art walk
funkprint
Slo Mo 1 & 2
in progress
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