Graham Brown
Creative Work Samples
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CONTENTS
SAMPLE OF CREATIVE WORK - I Two 7-10 minute unedited excerpts
SAMPLE OF CREATIVE WORK - II
A note of clarification on titles:
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Sample Of Creative Work - I
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Two 7-10 minute excerpts, and one full work |
You excerpt, SLC UT, 2015
Throughout You, the physical relationship between audience and performers was continually renegotiated. This excerpt begins with the “restaurant duet,” where the performers are encircled by audience members seated at identical tables and chairs as if at a restaurant together. The scene concludes at 6:00, after which the video flows into the “changing duet.” While these two scenes are connected both narratively and emotionally, the full work interweaves other scenes between them. Feel free to stop at the end of “restaurant duet,” or continue into “changing duet."
Presented by Repertory Dance Theatre's LINK Series, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC UT
Choreographer, Director: Graham Brown
Performers in this video: Mikayla Ellison and Keanu Brady
See "You highlight reel" below for full production credits
Presented by Repertory Dance Theatre's LINK Series, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC UT
Choreographer, Director: Graham Brown
Performers in this video: Mikayla Ellison and Keanu Brady
See "You highlight reel" below for full production credits
A Mobile Excursion excerpt, BYU dancEnsemble, 2016
A re-imagining of the spaces in and around the BYU Dance Theatre, co-created with visual artist Aundrea Frahm and the students. A combination of site-specific dance, installation art, and immersive performance.
More on A Mobile Excursion including production credits
More on A Mobile Excursion including production credits
Only Now full evening-length work, BYU dancEnsemble, 2014
A from-the-ground-up collaboration between choreographers, performers, composers, and designers. We began by giving students simple compositional assignments, and together we built the work from these fragments. The process was designed to guide students through the full arc of creation — from simple studies to a fully realized performance.
Presented by the Brigham Young University Department of Dance
Artistic Director - Graham Brown
Choreographers- Graham Brown, Caroline Prohosky, and performers
Composers - Gavin Ryan, Stuart Wheeler
Designers - Troy Sales, Dawn Maughan, Benjamin Sanders
Performers - The BYU dancEnsemble
Presented by the Brigham Young University Department of Dance
Artistic Director - Graham Brown
Choreographers- Graham Brown, Caroline Prohosky, and performers
Composers - Gavin Ryan, Stuart Wheeler
Designers - Troy Sales, Dawn Maughan, Benjamin Sanders
Performers - The BYU dancEnsemble
Sample Of Creative Work - II |
links to my work; with descriptions |
Family Home Evening documentary footage, Mondaino Italy, 2025
Family Home Evening is a solo work in progress performed by Joel Brown, created by Joel Brown and Graham Brown in residency at L'arboreto Teatro Dimora in Mondaino, Italy. Residency sponsored by Open Dialogo - an arts exchange between Arts Council England and the Italian Ministry of Culture, managed by Stopgap Dance Company. While in residence at L'arboreto we also taught a master class to Club Aliano, a local physically integrated dance company.
SONDERimmersive rehearsal excerpts, SLC UT, 2019-2022
The close contact and three-dimensional nature of this work makes capturing performance on film particularly difficult. These rehearsal excerpts highlight the works’ site-specific, compositional, and/or experiential nature.
Clip breakdown (click on show title for full details including production credits):
1-4 0:00-5:39 The Chocolatier, 2019-2020. In the 1st and 3rd videos the other person present is an audience member.
5 5:40-7:02 The Carousel, 2020
6 7:03-8:54 Hemingway & The Byrd, 2021-2022
7 8:55-13:45 The Chocolatier, 2021. This is a full scene.
Clip breakdown (click on show title for full details including production credits):
1-4 0:00-5:39 The Chocolatier, 2019-2020. In the 1st and 3rd videos the other person present is an audience member.
5 5:40-7:02 The Carousel, 2020
6 7:03-8:54 Hemingway & The Byrd, 2021-2022
7 8:55-13:45 The Chocolatier, 2021. This is a full scene.
Sonder short solo excerpt, Havana Cuba, 2016
Performed at Compania Rosario Cardenas Studio while in residency with PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATRE. Outside of its immersive context, this solo engages the compositional task of creating and executing movement on pace with the syncopated rhythms of the rappers’ voice, engaging certain vernacular street dance sensibilities.
Choreographed and performed by Graham Brown
Created with Candace Scarborough
More on Sonder including production credits
Choreographed and performed by Graham Brown
Created with Candace Scarborough
More on Sonder including production credits
You highlight reel, SLC UT, 2015
You is an immersive dance-party-theatre experience navigating nightlife, home life, and loneliness amid the crowd. This was my first foray into immersive performance. It was presented in a black box theatre, with the seats removed. Throughout the evening the physical relationship between audience and performers was continually renegotiated.
Choreographer, Director: Graham Brown
Composers: Michael Wall, Joel Brown, and David Schulman
Dramaturg: Andrea Gunoe
Acting Coach: Rodger Sorensen
Lighting Designer: Mckenzie Ottley
Costume Designer: Dawn Maughan
Scenic Designer: Logan Hayden
Stage Manager: Melissa Leilani Larson
Starring Keanu Brady, Mikayla Ellison, Shawnee Jo Haycock, and Jersey Reo Riemo
Featuring an ensemble cast of Brigham Young University Dance Department students
Choreographer, Director: Graham Brown
Composers: Michael Wall, Joel Brown, and David Schulman
Dramaturg: Andrea Gunoe
Acting Coach: Rodger Sorensen
Lighting Designer: Mckenzie Ottley
Costume Designer: Dawn Maughan
Scenic Designer: Logan Hayden
Stage Manager: Melissa Leilani Larson
Starring Keanu Brady, Mikayla Ellison, Shawnee Jo Haycock, and Jersey Reo Riemo
Featuring an ensemble cast of Brigham Young University Dance Department students
Let The Right One In excerpt, Provo UT, 2018
Choreography was created with the actors to illuminate the script while adding aesthetic depth and intrigue.
This is a video from a dress rehearsal filmed on an iPhone.
Let The Right One In by Jack Thorne; based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Straight play directed by Christopher Clark and Morag Shepherd
Produced by An Other Theater Company
Choreographer: Graham Brown
Performers: Scout Smith, Brian Kocherhans
This is a video from a dress rehearsal filmed on an iPhone.
Let The Right One In by Jack Thorne; based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Straight play directed by Christopher Clark and Morag Shepherd
Produced by An Other Theater Company
Choreographer: Graham Brown
Performers: Scout Smith, Brian Kocherhans
Sample of Technique Class Phrases at BYU, 2013-2018
These clips demonstrate the kinds of material I offer students: release-based, full-bodied movement with an emphasis on floorwork, mixed meters, polyrhythms, and vernacular sensibilities. Most are accompanied with live music, reflecting my ongoing efforts to vitalize and transform the culture of live music in the BYU Dance Department, Contemporary Area.
