#bbmoves

con·tent·ed /kənˈten(t)əd/ adjective happy and at ease; satisfied. A weekend of fullness…full of smiles, community, beauty (both artistic and natural) and ease. Thank you Quron, Glen and Vuong for all that you bring to this work. #bbmoves #content #touring #pride #queer #narrative #dance • @bb.moves Queer Mvmnt Festival + San Diego owes us nothing! Our first company tour in a great while was a beautiful experience. We participated in providing a workshop, two panel discussions and two performances. Our work, “The Sweetness of Sweat” (an extract of “Processing Sugar Notes”), was well received. Thank you @vuonguyen_, @maximalyght and @qualified_q for your visceral and spirited performances. Big Thank You and Congratulations to our new friends @disco_riot, @desdance411 @trystanmerrick on a wonderful festival, which in our opinion will be a first of many. #bbmoves #dance #sugar #sweat #Black #queer #pride #losangeles #sandiego #movement #tour #intimacy #resistance #dancefamily (at San Diego, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfZX7DDJoQ0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

con·tent·ed /kənˈten(t)əd/ adjective happy and at ease; satisfied. A weekend of fullness…full of smiles, community, beauty (both artistic and natural) and ease. Thank you Quron, Glen and Vuong for all that you bring to this work. #bbmoves #content #touring #pride #queer #narrative #dance • @bb.moves Queer Mvmnt Festival + San Diego owes us nothing! Our first company tour in a great while was a beautiful experience. We participated in providing a workshop, two panel discussions and two performances. Our work, “The Sweetness of Sweat” (an extract of “Processing Sugar Notes”), was well received. Thank you @vuonguyen_, @maximalyght and @qualified_q for your visceral and spirited performances. Big Thank You and Congratulations to our new friends @disco_riot, @desdance411 @trystanmerrick on a wonderful festival, which in our opinion will be a first of many. #bbmoves #dance #sugar #sweat #Black #queer #pride #losangeles #sandiego #movement #tour #intimacy #resistance #dancefamily (at San Diego, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfZX7DDJoQ0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Elated! • @bb.moves Up next: Our film, “The Weight of Sugar,” is headed to American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers! Saturday, July 2 2pm Durham County Main Library Free https://americandancefestival.org/event/movies-by-movers-screenings-2022-07-02/ We have more news and CANNOT wait to share! 1. @laishabx in a golden colored dress caught mid-turn while throwing sugar granuals. 📸: @jingqiu.guan 2. @adfsmoviesby movers official selection laurels. #bbmoves #dance #film #ADF #Black #feminism #ChoreographiesOfCare #ToniMorrison #collaboration (at American Dance Festival) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfYgsweui9b/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

@bb.moves Freedom. “Bernard dances like freedom personified—earth turned flesh.” “Through his alchemical movement, Bernard redefines the meaning of “freedom.” He reframes, reclaims, renegotiates, and conjures a version of Freedom that he not only has a right to, but that his own luminous Black body radiates.” - Molly Rose-Williams, reviewing Queering Dance Festival (April 2022) What a beautiful reflection… Thank you @queeringdancefestival for the opportunity. #Anew #bbmoves #dance #song #freedom #BlackQueerArtist 📸: @robbiesweeny https://www.instagram.com/p/CeQKvmHLh2B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

@bb.moves Freedom. “Bernard dances like freedom personified—earth turned flesh.” “Through his alchemical movement, Bernard redefines the meaning of “freedom.” He reframes, reclaims, renegotiates, and conjures a version of Freedom that he not only has a right to, but that his own luminous Black body radiates.” What a beautiful reflection… Thank you @queeringdancefestival for the opportunity. #Anew #bbmoves #dance #song #freedom #BlackQueerArtist 📸: @robbiesweeny https://www.instagram.com/p/CeQKvmHLh2B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Sweet. Posted @withregram • @bb.moves We are excited to be presented at the Abrons Arts Center @abronsartscenter in NYC, June 12 by New Dance Alliance. Christopher Salango will be reprising his solo from “Processing Sugar Notes.” Performer: @chrisjslayyngo Music: Absolutions, Max Roach Choreography: @renaissancebrown #bbmoves #grateful #NYC #LowerEastside #dance #sugar #MondayMemory, Los Angeles Dance Festival 2019 (at Abrons Arts Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdpY8PYr6dP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

What a week?! Posted @withregram • @bb.moves Astounded. We are greatly surprised by this announcement! Our film, “The Weight of Sugar,” has been named Best Dance Film by Black Lives Rising Dance Film Festival! Congratulations to Director and editor, Jingqiu Guan @jingqiu.guan! And to our director, Bernard Brown, for receiving Best Choreography! Gigantic praise to the dancers, collaborators, crew and to California Arts Council and California Humanities - without whom this project would not have made. #grateful #bbmoves #BlackLives #GlobalMajority #dance #film #art #activism #ChoreographiesOfCare #ToniMorrison @blrdancefilmfest @calartscouncil @humanitiescal @renaissancebrown @movimientoyaya https://www.instagram.com/p/CdZmCd9r8PN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“…the pleasure of teaching is an act of resistance…” I laugh A LOT in class. Teaching, being in a learning environment can conjure joy! As I was laughing a lot in today’s contemporary technique class at @lmudance, I remembered the above quote from bell hooks’ introduction in Teaching to Transgress (a foundational pedagogy text, for me). I hope that I can continue, as hooks said, to counter “the overwhelming boredom, uninterest, and apathy that so often characterize the way professors and students feel about teaching and learning, about the classroom experience.” Joy is part of my radical resistance. Thank you Dr. @shamellbell for the reminders. Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to share my dance, film, and choreography practice with: 1. 5th graders at Santa Monica Alternative Schoolhouse (SMASH) via @suarez_dance_theater’s film commission of dance film “…at leisure…” 2. Dunham Technique at East Carolina University @jaymekay4 3. Dunham Technique, Composition workshop at Scripps College @suchi_k_b Side note: folks, friends, colleagues are teaching my work at institutions across the country (and abroad). I frfr am overwhelmed. Truly, a life beyond my wildest dreams! #grateful #bbmoves #dance #film #composition #Black #Queer #teaching #artist #bellhooks #resistance #joy #ScrippsCollege #SantaMonica #EastCarolinaUniversity https://www.instagram.com/p/CcjHMq2p-hA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=