Brittany Delany is a dancer, choreographer, writer, feminist and
community organizer based in Southern California.
community organizer based in Southern California.
Dancer & Choreographer
Dancing helps me make sense of the world.
I love to research, teach and perform in a variety of movement techniques & traditions, including Hip Hop, Modern, Postmodern, Contact Improvisation, Jazz, Site-Specific, and Theater.
Dancing helps me make sense of the world.
I love to research, teach and perform in a variety of movement techniques & traditions, including Hip Hop, Modern, Postmodern, Contact Improvisation, Jazz, Site-Specific, and Theater.
Photo by Labkhand Olfatmanesh
Education: B.A. in Dance: Choreography & Performance and a B.A. in French Studies from Wesleyan University.
Founding Co-Director: GROUND SERIES dance & social justice collective
Dance Company Experience: de la femme sf directed by Bibi Khalili, Mary Sano and Isadora Duncan Dancers, Pedro Alejandro Dance & Dancers, Tribe the Dance Company, Unyted Stylz Crew.
Dance Residencies: SHIFT/west 2021 Women Choreographers Residency (Brockus Project Studios), Buckwheat (Morongo Valley), Temescal Arts Center (Oakland), the Foundry (Berkeley). Participated in Shayna Keller's residencies in Joshua Tree National Park (Joshua Tree, CA) & Judson Memorial Church (New York, NY), and Pedro Alejandro's residency at Earthdance (Plainfield, MA).
Echosense - GROUND SERIES
GROUND SERIES - A dance and social justice collective. We use performance to practice place-based justice by cultivating accountability to land, body and history. Brittany Delany is founding co-director with Sarah Ashkin. Since its inception in 2012, GROUND SERIES has collaborated with upwards of 35 artists to curate, produce, and choreograph over 25 performances, reaching thousands of audience members and students across the US and UK.
Director of Foundation, Corporate and Government Giving
Orange County Museum of Art
Community Organizer and Activist
Board Member, Secretary: Arts & Planning Division, American Planning Association
Founding Member: WYLD WOMXN - An intersectional feminist creative collective based in the Coachella Valley, California, empowering womxn through the arts and providing a safe and inclusive space for womxn and people who identify as womxn to express and be themselves.
Volunteer: Justice L.A. - In partnership with grassroots organizations, advocates, directly impacted communities, and stakeholders, JusticeLA works to reduce the footprint of incarceration by stopping jail expansion and reclaiming, reimagining and reinvesting dollars away from incarceration and into community-based systems of care. #CareFirst
Orange County Museum of Art
Community Organizer and Activist
Board Member, Secretary: Arts & Planning Division, American Planning Association
Founding Member: WYLD WOMXN - An intersectional feminist creative collective based in the Coachella Valley, California, empowering womxn through the arts and providing a safe and inclusive space for womxn and people who identify as womxn to express and be themselves.
Volunteer: Justice L.A. - In partnership with grassroots organizations, advocates, directly impacted communities, and stakeholders, JusticeLA works to reduce the footprint of incarceration by stopping jail expansion and reclaiming, reimagining and reinvesting dollars away from incarceration and into community-based systems of care. #CareFirst
Writer
Explore some of my writing for journals, magazines and dance publications:
Los Angeles Press, Contact Quarterly, In Dance, Hot Stepz Magazine, Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Voice of Dance, World of Dance.
Explore some of my writing for journals, magazines and dance publications:
Los Angeles Press, Contact Quarterly, In Dance, Hot Stepz Magazine, Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Voice of Dance, World of Dance.
