Brit Falcon / Falcon Dance

I am a disabled artist, educator, and somatic practitioner working through multiple lenses. I make work that treats the body as a site where systems are felt, disrupted, recycled, and reformed through movement.

My work germinates at the intersection of care and rigor, with an interest in relationality. I create highly physical, collaborative dance works that honor shared authorship and embodied research. Touch and partnering are central to my practice, offering ways to explore space, time, and sensation. I attend to the patterns that emerge in these exchanges—the shifts of weight, the choices to yield or resist, and the narratives that arise organically.

Visual mapping, imagery, and sound help shape the structure of my work. Diagrams, pathways, and evolving shapes allow me to track the logic of connection in real time while leaving space for dancers’ somatic and relational intelligence to guide the emotional flow. My work has been described as fiery, fluid, rhythmic, and dynamic, with organic yet unexpected pathways.

My artistic practice is grounded in somatics, touch-based methodologies, and collaborative processes. As a Licensed Massage Therapist, my understanding of the body is rooted in listening—through sensation, pressure, timing, and relational feedback. In the studio, this inquiry manifests as a compositional practice shaped by shifts in attention, rhythm, and sensory orientation. I often manipulate time and tone to create space for listening and adaptation, privileging process as a site of knowledge-making rather than fixed outcome.

I build work the way I build conditions for learning. As an educator, I frame movement exploration as a perceptual process rather than a purely technical one, inviting students to work with visual, proprioceptive, and tactile cues as tools for agency and authorship. Writing and drawing function as parallel practices in my work, allowing me to track thinking and navigate the web of epistemologies that inform both my creative and pedagogical processes.

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Brit Falcon (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and practitioner whose work spans dance, athletics, and body-centered research. 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.