Brit Falcon

I am curious about how bodies navigate and store lived experience—how stories are built and carried over time. This curiosity drives my research into the body as a site where systems are felt, disrupted, and reshaped, and where ecological and social forces become tangible in lived experience.

Rooted in the intersection of care and rigor, my work sustains an ongoing inquiry into relationality through collective practice. I create highly physical, collaborative dance works grounded in somatic practice, experimental research, and touch-based methodologies. My background as a Licensed Massage Therapist informs a process of deep listening, while my experience as a former elite athlete shapes an attention to efficiency, innovation, and sustainability in movement.

Visual mapping, imagery, and sound structure my work. Diagrams, pathways, and evolving shapes track the logic of connection in real time, while leaving space for dancers to interpret, disrupt, and reimagine those systems. My work has been described as fiery, fluid, rhythmic, and dynamic, with performers entwining in organic yet unexpected ways that reveal intimacy and structural complexity.

I believe choreography offers tools for noticing, responding, and staying with complexity, and I approach performance as an ecological act. Through my work, I create spaces where participants and audiences can reconsider how they relate to their own bodies, to one another, and to the environments they inhabit.

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Brit Falcon (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and somatic practitioner. She has performed and collaborated with notable artists including David Dorfman Dance, Kendra Portier/BANDPortier, Adriane Fang & Keith Johnson, André Zachery/Renegade Performance Group, Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange Productions, and Keith Thompson/danceTactics. Recent accolades include a 2024 co-presentation at Dance Place (DC), a 2023 residency as a Gibney Dance Presents artist (NYC), and the 2023 ArtsAMP Award for research at the intersection of dance, science, and social justice at UMD. Previous residencies include The Floor (2019) and the Bates Dance Festival Emerging Choreographer program (2017). She has been commissioned by Idaho State, Bates Dance Festival, Gibney Dance Center, Goucher College, SUNY Brockport, NYU Gallatin, New Dance Collective, and Colorado Mesa University. Additional teaching credits include University of Oregon, Nazareth College, American Dance Festival, Mark Morris Dance Center, University of Hartford, and Performática (Mexico). She is currently on faculty at Marymount Manhattan College, continues to perform, and makes work with Falcon Dance. Brit holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland and a BFA in Dance from The College at Brockport, and is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Movement Coach, and Somatic Educator. Brit also works as the Programs Coordinator at The Arts Center at Duck Creek.