Brit Falcon / Falcon Dance

I am performer, choreographer, and healthcare worker. My research is intricately woven at the crossroads of physical and social sciences, where emergent ideas of connection and disruption take shape through human-centered designs. Drawing from my extensive background as a healthcare worker and former elite athlete, my commitment to somatic physicality serves as both a healing and liberating practice and a foundational choreographic methodology. 

My creative process is deeply rooted in extensive research, physical exploration, conversation and play, supported by long-term collaborations. I draw from a diverse range of disciplines—such as contact-based forms, visual art, poetry, athletics, contemporary dance, material design, technology, and sound design—to process ideas and engage with overlapping conversations from multiple perspectives. With an experimental and improvisational zest, these disciplines help me to build worlds with my collaborators, that ignite physical practice and the crystallization of choreographic material and structure. My work is often described as fiery, mature, and rhythmically unexpected, where bodies entwine in organic yet surprising ways. It manifests in live immersive performances, films, and interactive installations, thriving in the intricate interplay of care and rigor. 

Falcon Dance is a creative team based in NYC, under the direction of Brit Falcon since 2013. Rigorous research, embodied care, and collaborative exchange form the core of the group's values. The work, often described as fiery, mature, and rhythmically unexpected, is characterized by charged physicality and "bodies intertwining in organic yet surprising ways." They craft immersive worlds realized through live performance, film, and interactive installations. 

I holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland, a BFA in Dance from The College at Brockport, and a NYS Massage Therapy License. I have performed with Kendra Portier/BANDPortier, Adriane Fang/Keith Johnson, Keith Thompson/danceTactics, David Dorfman Dance, André Zachery/Renegade Performance Group, Dance Exchange Productions, Rebecca Steinberg, Javier Padilla/sideprojects, and Bill Evans Dance. My teaching credits include Colorado Mesa University, NYU Gallatin, University of Oregon, Nazareth College, American Dance Festival, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Hartford, and Goucher College. Recent choreographic works include an original 2024 piece for Goucher students, a 2024 Co-Presentation with Dance Place (Washington, DC), and a 2023 Gibney Dance Center Commissioned Artist-in-Residence (New York City). Their work has been presented and commissioned by venues such as Arts On Site, Triskelion Arts, Mark Morris Dance Center, Dixon Place, Bates Dance Festival, Colorado Mesa University, Idaho State University, SUNY Brockport, and The Wooden Floor. They have received honors including the ArtsAMP Award for research at the intersection of dance, science, and social justice (2023), the City Artist Corps Grant (2021), The Floor Artist-in-Residence (2019), and the Bates Dance Festival Emerging Choreographer (2017).