Olivia Jenna Brown

(PERFORMER) is a Philadelphia-based dance artist from the East Village in Manhattan. She is currently a lead children’s teaching artist at University City Arts League, as well as a member of Poético Dance Collective. After receiving her Bachelors in Dance from Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College in 2019, Olivia has performed with professional dance companies including VLDC and Monica Bill Barnes & Co. Olivia’s perspective of dance is inspired by her training at Alvin Ailey, as well as by the somatic methodologies of postmodern choreographers Nancy Stark Smith and Trisha Brown. In her choreography and dance filmmaking, Olivia employs a meditative, site-specific approach to explore themes of nature, group dynamics, and Judaic culture. Olivia passionately believes that movement can be a transformative tool by which to radically imagine and embody positive change in the world.