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​Choreographic Work Samples

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Four video samples most relevant to a  Dance faculty position:
  • You - Performance excerpt video. 2015; SLC, UT
  • Sonder - Informal solo excerpt. 2016; Havana, Cuba
  • Only Now - Full evening-length work. 2014; Provo, UT
  • I've Had It Up To Here - Full short work. 2011; SLC, UT

​More recent samples of my professional immersive and theatrical works:
  • Hemingway & The Byrd - Rehearsal video. 2021; SLC, UT
  • The Chocolatier - Rehearsal videos. 2019-2020; SLC, UT
  • Let The Right One In - Dress rehearsal video. 2018; Provo, UT​​ ​

You - Performance Excerpt Video. 2015; SLC, UT

An evening-length work of immersive dance-party-theatre navigating nightlife, home life, and loneliness amid the crowd.

​Presented by Repertory Dance Theatre's LINK Series at The Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.

Choreographed, directed by Graham Brown
Original Music by Michael Wall, Joel Brown, and David Schulman
Starring Keanu Brady, Mikayla Ellison, Shawnee Jo Haycock, and Jersey Reo Riemo
Featuring an ensemble cast of Brigham Young University Dance Department students
Video filmed and edited by Cody Phillips

Sonder - Informal solo excerpt. 2016; Havana, Cuba

Sonder is an evening length immersive theatre work that ran for 6 weeks in 2017 in a multi-story historical building in SLC, UT. 

This is an informal showing of a short solo within the work, while the show was in development.
Performed by myself at the Compania Rosario Cardenas studio, Havana Cuba; on tour with PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER.

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sonderimmersive.com/sonder

Only Now - Full evening-length work. 2014; Provo, UT

A made-from-scratch collaboration between choreographer/directors, performers, composers, and designers. It was created from simple movement assignments given to the students and refined into an abstract composition-based snapshot of their collective creative energy.

Presented in 2014 by the Brigham Young University Dance Department; Provo, UT

Choreographer/Director - Graham Brown
Co-Choreographer/Director - Caroline Prohosky
Composers - Gavin Ryan, Stuart Wheeler
Designers - Troy Sales, Dawn Maughan, Benjamin Sanders
​Performers - The BYU dancEnsemble

Note to search committee: The opening 10-minute scene is a good example of my large-group choreography work with students.
​You are of course welcome to watch the entire hour-long video.

I've Had It Up To Here - Full short work. 2011; SLC, UT

Duet created with my brother Joel Brown. He and I performed it throughout UT and Washington, D.C. 
This duet launched his career as a performer with Axis Dance Company in Oakland, CA.; and then with Candoco in London.
For more on my research in disability, please see the following article published in 2016
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note: Some of the self-identifiers I use in the 4th paragraph no longer apply
www.academia.edu/29053360/Empowering_Alterity

Additional Samples of Recent Professional Immersive and Theatrical Work

Performed by a mixture of professional dancers and actors

Hemingway & The Byrd - Rehearsal video. 2021; SLC, UT
An immersive fine dining experience that intersects the rocky life and fictional writing of Ernest Hemingway. 
Ran throughout 2021 in CytyByrd Cafe.

Produced by SONDERimmersive
Choreographed; Directed by Graham Brown
Performers in the video: Tyler Fox and Kevin Jones Giddins

sonderimmersive.com/hemingway

The Chocolatier (Originally titled Thank You Theobromine) - Rehearsal videos. 2019-2020; SLC, UT

Thank You Theobromine ran November-December 2019 in The Chocolate Conspiracy shop in downtown SLC, UT.
The Chocolatier only had one weekend of invited previews, March 2020, before the pandemic shut-down. 
It did have a proper run of shows in 2021, albeit in a different location and with modifications to comply with pandemic restrictions.

Produced by SONDERimmersive 
Choreographed; Directed by Graham Brown

sonderimmersive.com/thechocolatier
Performer: Amber Golden
This is a private scene for only one audience member (the one in the passenger seat). No one else witnesses or experiences the scene.

Performer: Lauren Payne​
This is a private scene for only one audience member. In this video, the woman in grey is the audience member. She had no prior knowledge about the scene before experiencing it in this video. In other words, her responses and reactions are genuine; not prescribed or performed.

Performer: Elizabeth Golden

Let The Right One In - Dress rehearsal video. Straight play. 2018; Provo, UT

A play by Jack Thorne; based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Produced by An Other Theatre Company 
Directed by Christopher Clark and Morag Shepherd
Choreographed by Graham Brown
​Starring Scout Smith and Brian Kocherhans

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