Hollywood Night - Brittany Delany
Choreographed and Performed by Brittany Delany
'Hollywood Night' poem and reading by Linda Ravenswood
Music by Dave WIlliams and Dan Thomas
Presented by Red Light Lit
Gold Diggers, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Thumbnail image by Barry Blinderman
Filming by Lauren Bright
Brittany enjoys experimenting and performing at curated events by Red Light Lit. She has performed solo dances to live poetry readings by Jennifer Lewis, Loria Mendoza, Philip T. Nails and Linda Ravenswood, with live improvised music by David Williams, Dan Thomas, Denny Weston Jr. at Furstworld (Joshua Tree), Gold Diggers (Hollywood) and Hotel Cafe (Los Angeles). She has also performed a duet with Lauren Bright to a poem by Linda Ravenswood. With her love of all three forms - writing, music, dance-- Brittany discovers a fresh vitality in the creative exchange and performance.
Choreographed and Performed by Brittany Delany
'Hollywood Night' poem and reading by Linda Ravenswood
Music by Dave WIlliams and Dan Thomas
Presented by Red Light Lit
Gold Diggers, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Thumbnail image by Barry Blinderman
Filming by Lauren Bright
Brittany enjoys experimenting and performing at curated events by Red Light Lit. She has performed solo dances to live poetry readings by Jennifer Lewis, Loria Mendoza, Philip T. Nails and Linda Ravenswood, with live improvised music by David Williams, Dan Thomas, Denny Weston Jr. at Furstworld (Joshua Tree), Gold Diggers (Hollywood) and Hotel Cafe (Los Angeles). She has also performed a duet with Lauren Bright to a poem by Linda Ravenswood. With her love of all three forms - writing, music, dance-- Brittany discovers a fresh vitality in the creative exchange and performance.
Rewilding - excerpt
Choreographed and Performed by Brittany Delany
Music by Emer Kinsella
Heidi Duckler Dance's Ebb & Flow : Chinatown Festival
Los Angeles State Historic Park
Footage by 2Sides Film courtesy of Heidi Duckler Dance.
Brittany Delany choreographed and performed a live dance 'Rewilding' in response to the Los Angeles State Historic Park environment, as part of Heidi Duckler Dance's Ebb & Flow : Chinatown Festival. She created a duet with violinist Emer Kinsella. Delany has developed site-specific work for a variety of spaces including a church, a basketball gymnasium, a foundry warehouse and national parks. After over a year of staying safer-at-home due to the pandemic, Brittany was thrilled to be among the artists who helped kick off a healthy arts season in Los Angeles, June 2021.
Choreographed and Performed by Brittany Delany
Music by Emer Kinsella
Heidi Duckler Dance's Ebb & Flow : Chinatown Festival
Los Angeles State Historic Park
Footage by 2Sides Film courtesy of Heidi Duckler Dance.
Brittany Delany choreographed and performed a live dance 'Rewilding' in response to the Los Angeles State Historic Park environment, as part of Heidi Duckler Dance's Ebb & Flow : Chinatown Festival. She created a duet with violinist Emer Kinsella. Delany has developed site-specific work for a variety of spaces including a church, a basketball gymnasium, a foundry warehouse and national parks. After over a year of staying safer-at-home due to the pandemic, Brittany was thrilled to be among the artists who helped kick off a healthy arts season in Los Angeles, June 2021.
DANCING IN A HARD PLACE Trailer from SA on Vimeo.
Dancing in a Hard Place - trailer
Conception & Co-Direction by Sarah Ashkin and Micaela Gardner
Choreography & Performance by Sarah Ashkin, Micaela Gardner, Brittany Delany, Adam McKinney, Ehren Natay, Andy Primm, Sophia Rog, Paolo Speirn and Spencer Toll
Music Composition & Performance by Ehren Kee Natay, Spencer Toll, and Andy Primm
Projections by Alex Reid
Technical Direction by Gary Ashkin
Co-produced by Angie Rizzo
Created for/with the Center for the Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe
Dancing in a Hard Place, presented by dance and social justice collective GROUND SERIES, was a full length interior site dance set in The Muñoz Waxman Gallery at Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts, with performances in July of 2016. Among the sculptural works of artists Ellen Babcock and Cannupa Hanska Luger, audience followed dance action as it emerged along a fluid path, through settings inside the exhibition space both intimate and broad.
Dancing in a Hard Place was a group dream and reflection on the living, suffering earth around us. Drawing from the environmental writing of poets, scientists, and authors, this piece addressed our wavering connection to landscape, home, and self. The dances describe themselves as odes and poems to landscape, sensual and cerebral pictures of humans and animals on earth.
Conception & Co-Direction by Sarah Ashkin and Micaela Gardner
Choreography & Performance by Sarah Ashkin, Micaela Gardner, Brittany Delany, Adam McKinney, Ehren Natay, Andy Primm, Sophia Rog, Paolo Speirn and Spencer Toll
Music Composition & Performance by Ehren Kee Natay, Spencer Toll, and Andy Primm
Projections by Alex Reid
Technical Direction by Gary Ashkin
Co-produced by Angie Rizzo
Created for/with the Center for the Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe
Dancing in a Hard Place, presented by dance and social justice collective GROUND SERIES, was a full length interior site dance set in The Muñoz Waxman Gallery at Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts, with performances in July of 2016. Among the sculptural works of artists Ellen Babcock and Cannupa Hanska Luger, audience followed dance action as it emerged along a fluid path, through settings inside the exhibition space both intimate and broad.
Dancing in a Hard Place was a group dream and reflection on the living, suffering earth around us. Drawing from the environmental writing of poets, scientists, and authors, this piece addressed our wavering connection to landscape, home, and self. The dances describe themselves as odes and poems to landscape, sensual and cerebral pictures of humans and animals on earth.
task trailer from SA on Vimeo.
task
Choreographed and Performed by Sarah Ashkin, Brittany Delany
Music by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs
Design by Zoe Koke
Dramaturgy by Sue Roginski
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
task is a dance theater duet created by dance and social justice collective GROUND SERIES, which uses the platform of the proscenium dance performance to re-map and re-frame the stage's complicity in white supremacy. The duet, choreographed and performed by Sarah Ashkin and Brittany Delany, reflects on the problematics of the white female body moving through the foreground and background.
Balancing the absurdity, tenderness, violence, and honesty required to engage with racism, gender, and western concert dance, task is a collage of postmodern dance, performance art, satire, and political commentary. Entrenched in themes of failure, listening and accountability, this duet invites the audience to consider this work in the current political moment — as artists, as cultural patrons, and as people.
Choreographed and Performed by Sarah Ashkin, Brittany Delany
Music by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs
Design by Zoe Koke
Dramaturgy by Sue Roginski
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
task is a dance theater duet created by dance and social justice collective GROUND SERIES, which uses the platform of the proscenium dance performance to re-map and re-frame the stage's complicity in white supremacy. The duet, choreographed and performed by Sarah Ashkin and Brittany Delany, reflects on the problematics of the white female body moving through the foreground and background.
Balancing the absurdity, tenderness, violence, and honesty required to engage with racism, gender, and western concert dance, task is a collage of postmodern dance, performance art, satire, and political commentary. Entrenched in themes of failure, listening and accountability, this duet invites the audience to consider this work in the current political moment — as artists, as cultural patrons, and as people.
Public Horse (excerpt)
Choreographed by Shayna Keller
Performances by Sarah Ashkin, Brittany Delany, Shayna Keller, Samantha Sherman
Music by Will Brant
Movement Research
Memorial Judson Church – Manhattan, New York
Public Horse was a work created by Shayna Keller that explored the physicality and musicality of the non-human. Through improvisation, trance, somatic practice and phrase work, Public Horse blurs the line of human and dancing animal.
Choreographed by Shayna Keller
Performances by Sarah Ashkin, Brittany Delany, Shayna Keller, Samantha Sherman
Music by Will Brant
Movement Research
Memorial Judson Church – Manhattan, New York
Public Horse was a work created by Shayna Keller that explored the physicality and musicality of the non-human. Through improvisation, trance, somatic practice and phrase work, Public Horse blurs the line of human and dancing animal.
DISSOLVE (Part 1)
Choreographed and Performed by Brittany Delany
Artist in Residence, Foundry Nights VII
Music by Mt. Wolf - Life Size Ghosts (Catching Flies Remix)
The Foundry, West Berkeley, CA
Film by Cyperus Media
DISSOLVE was a trio of dance works which responded to the Foundry site’s unique architecture, found elements, and environment. Emphasizing the audience perspective shifts in its central design, the first part was created to highlight the raised platform, its angles and machinery; the second part illuminated the windows and shadow play; and the third was witnessed from above, looking down at the dance from a bird’s eye view.
"Brittany (a.k.a. Brizzle) Delany’s ‘Dissolve’ is a master work— the boundaries between audience and performer are gradually dissolved as the performer enters her own evanescent plateau; she gradually leaves fragments of her disappearing social persona behind, so as to reveal the hard-work of being God-dessa. Honest, raw, energized!"
--Pedro Alejandro
Choreographed and Performed by Brittany Delany
Artist in Residence, Foundry Nights VII
Music by Mt. Wolf - Life Size Ghosts (Catching Flies Remix)
The Foundry, West Berkeley, CA
Film by Cyperus Media
DISSOLVE was a trio of dance works which responded to the Foundry site’s unique architecture, found elements, and environment. Emphasizing the audience perspective shifts in its central design, the first part was created to highlight the raised platform, its angles and machinery; the second part illuminated the windows and shadow play; and the third was witnessed from above, looking down at the dance from a bird’s eye view.
"Brittany (a.k.a. Brizzle) Delany’s ‘Dissolve’ is a master work— the boundaries between audience and performer are gradually dissolved as the performer enters her own evanescent plateau; she gradually leaves fragments of her disappearing social persona behind, so as to reveal the hard-work of being God-dessa. Honest, raw, energized!"
--Pedro Alejandro
No Eggshells/Outside - Part 1
Choreographed by Pedro Alejandro
Performances by Brittany Delany, Paul Hiam, Devon Hopkins, Maya Odim, and Samantha Sherman
Video by Pedro Alejandro and Marcela Oteiza
Set Design and Projections by Marcela Oteiza
Live Music by Adam Tinkle and Rod O'Connor
Costumes by Mike Taras
Set Installation by Greg Soros
Wesleyan University, Center for the Arts, Middletown, CT
No Eggshells/ Outside was an experimental performance relating to Pedro Alejandro's research interests on sustainability, the political economy of softness, Modern Dance's conceptual apparatus; and the relationship between the animalistic and spiritual components in the meta-kinetic development of dancers.
Dance Professor Investigates 'Softness' as an Eco-Aesthetic Principle in Choreography, Research - Wesleyan Connection
Choreographed by Pedro Alejandro
Performances by Brittany Delany, Paul Hiam, Devon Hopkins, Maya Odim, and Samantha Sherman
Video by Pedro Alejandro and Marcela Oteiza
Set Design and Projections by Marcela Oteiza
Live Music by Adam Tinkle and Rod O'Connor
Costumes by Mike Taras
Set Installation by Greg Soros
Wesleyan University, Center for the Arts, Middletown, CT
No Eggshells/ Outside was an experimental performance relating to Pedro Alejandro's research interests on sustainability, the political economy of softness, Modern Dance's conceptual apparatus; and the relationship between the animalistic and spiritual components in the meta-kinetic development of dancers.
Dance Professor Investigates 'Softness' as an Eco-Aesthetic Principle in Choreography, Research - Wesleyan Connection
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Hip Hop
Donnie Klang Opening Performance Choreographer: Theo Martinez Dancers: Brittany Delany, Theo Martinez, Melissa Webster The Roxy, Boston, MA |
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Jazz
Lips Unsealed Choreographer : Katie Egan Dancers : Rainbow Tribe Dance Company Music: The Introduction, Barb Wire/The Human Animal Videography: Charles Daniels Boston University, Boston, MA |
Photo credits:
Row 1: Steve Be and Owen Bailey (1-2)- Brittany Delany's "DISSOLVE", Photo by Rush Varela Photography Courtesy of Heidi Duckler Dance - Brittany's "Rewilding" at Ebb & Flow: Chinatown Festival. Row 2: Zoe Koke - GROUND SERIES' "task", Coachella Magazine - Victor Simmons' Showcase, Kyle Adler - GROUND SERIES' "Echosense", SF Movement Arts Festival. Row 3: Coachella Magazine (1-2) - GROUND SERIES "Experiments in Land & Dance" at Buckwheat Space, Lisa Wahlander - GROUND SERIES "Experiments in Land & Dance" at Buckwheat Space.
Row 1: Steve Be and Owen Bailey (1-2)- Brittany Delany's "DISSOLVE", Photo by Rush Varela Photography Courtesy of Heidi Duckler Dance - Brittany's "Rewilding" at Ebb & Flow: Chinatown Festival. Row 2: Zoe Koke - GROUND SERIES' "task", Coachella Magazine - Victor Simmons' Showcase, Kyle Adler - GROUND SERIES' "Echosense", SF Movement Arts Festival. Row 3: Coachella Magazine (1-2) - GROUND SERIES "Experiments in Land & Dance" at Buckwheat Space, Lisa Wahlander - GROUND SERIES "Experiments in Land & Dance" at Buckwheat Space.