bbmoves.

My dancelife.

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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=

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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=

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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=

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“The body is the vessel that will save our lives!” In the workshop I lead this afternoon, a little disoriented by the news of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, we got a little emotional. I’m reminded of the power of community and of our bodies! https://www.instagram.com/p/CfN_AsRuH-e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Ten years. Ten moments. Life is better with you by my side, @rowlme! I can’t wait to have more adventures with you. 1. Our first public dance, caught on-camera by @seanblackofficial, ultimately used in a publication. 2. At one of our favorite spots, Sunset Cliffs, San Diego. 3. Our first New Year’s Eve, 2012 4. Somewhere about to eat! Ha! 5. Riding around, in LA traffic 6. After visiting the Black American Portrait exhibit at LACMA @lacma 7. Hiking along the American River in Sacramento. 8. The scene of the crime! Visiting Arturo’s barbershop - the place where I realized I really liked this guy. 9. The anniversary dinner at Taix that became a surprise engagement party! (7 years ago today.) @taixfrench 10. Silly photo from year one. #BernardLovesScott #Pride #10years #ScottietheHottie https://www.instagram.com/p/CfE01vZJrIp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.” - Kehinde Wiley 📸: @robbiesweeny for @queeringdancefestival 2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/CesNN__rVlC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.” - Kehinde Wiley 📸: @robbiesweeny for @queeringdancefestival 2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/CesNN__rVlC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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@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=

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@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=

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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=

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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=

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LMU. Year 1. Yesterday, I taught my last class of the semester, and of the academic year. I don’t yet have words… Some words from those I’m in service to: “You were such a wonderful professor and I really appreciate how you pushed us to do our best work but at the same time you were very understanding. I also really appreciate how you shared your own work with us and let us know when you were feeling nervous or vulnerable about sharing so that we felt comfortable doing the same. You created such a welcoming and safe environment and I truly enjoyed this class.” “Thank you for all the wisdom and advice you imparted to me…I wish I could have taken class with you for longer, because I've learned so much from you in such a short period of time.” “I want to applaud you once again for your outstanding job as an instructor this semester.” #grateful #ProfessorBrown #LMU #EngagedPedagogy #bellhooks 📸: @seanblackofficial https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc8h213vOZ5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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LMU. Year 1. Yesterday, I taught my last class of the semester and of the academic year. I don’t yet have words… Some words from those I’m in service to: You were such a wonderful professor and I really appreciate how you pushed us to do our best work but at the same time you were very understanding. I also really appreciate how you shared your own work with us and let us know when you were feeling nervous or vulnerable about sharing so that we felt comfortable doing the same. You created such a welcoming and safe environment and I truly enjoyed this class. Thank you for all the wisdom and advice you imparted to me…I wish I could have taken class with you for longer, because I've learned so much from you in such a short period of time. I want to applaud you once again for your outstanding job as an instructor this semester. #grateful #ProfessorBrown #LMU #EngagedPedagogy #bellhooks Headshot: @seanblackofficial https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc8h213vOZ5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“…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=

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Renewal. • @bb.moves “…it is necessary to teach by living and speaking those truths which we believe and know beyond understanding. Because in this way alone we can survive, by taking part in a process of life that is creative and continuing, that is growth.” Audre Lorde Revisiting the experience of Queering Dance Festival from 2 weeks ago…in our minds. “ANEW” calls on our collective remembering of our slain fathers, mothers, cousins and all kin as an act of resistance and renewal. Remember what we are striving for - TRUE LIBERATION FOR ALL. #bbmoves #renewal #remember #rebirth #gratitude #QDF #berkeley #dance #Black #Queer #AudreLorde #liberation Posted @withregram • @queeringdancefestival Bernard Brown/bbmoves in “Anew” at QDF’s FROLIC, April 1-2 at Live Oak Theater Photo by Robbie Sweeny @robbiesweeny https://www.instagram.com/p/CceWIpqJLf9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Renewal. • @bb.moves “…it is necessary to teach by living and speaking those truths which we believe and know beyond understanding. Because in this way alone we can survive, by taking part in a process of life that is creative and continuing, that is growth.” Audre Lorde Revisiting the experience of Queering Dance Festival from 2 weeks ago…in our minds. “ANEW” calls on our collective remembering of our slain fathers, mothers, cousins and all kin as an act of resistance and renewal. Remember what we are striving for - TRUE LIBERATION FOR ALL. #bbmoves #renewal #remember #rebirth #gratitude #QDF #berkeley #dance #Black #Queer #AudreLorde #liberation Posted @withregram • @queeringdancefestival Bernard Brown/bbmoves in “Anew” at QDF’s FROLIC, April 1-2 at Live Oak Theater Photo by Robbie Sweeny @robbiesweeny https://www.instagram.com/p/CceWIpqJLf9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I’m so thankful for my mentors, collaborators, friends, biological and chosen family. Super excited for each opportunity to share and to connect! There are more exciting developments I can’t wait to share… • @bb.moves LEAP /lēp/ (verb) jump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force. Our film “The Weight of Sugar” will be seen both at home and abroad! APRIL 19-MAY 8 PlatArtístic - Spring DanceFilm Fest “The Weight of Sugar,” official selection Spain APRIL 29 - MAY 1 Intercultural Reflections: A Festival in the Arts “The Weight of Sugar,” screening R Street Arts Complex Sacramento, CA MAY 23 - JUNE 23 BBMOVES Creative Residency Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA June will also have repertory works performed in dance festivals in California and New York! We are jumping for joy for all of the upcoming opportunities for our growing organization. 💃🏽: @_aye.jij3 📸: @jingqiu.guan #bbmoves #MondayMemories #Sugar #NewYork #SanDiego #Barcelona #Spain #dancefilm #gratitude Grateful to @calartscouncil + @humanitiescal + @maseriesarts for their support on these projects. https://www.instagram.com/p/CcOtpXgPJSV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=