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Christal Brown is the Founder of INSPIRIT, an Associate Professor of Dance at Middlebury College and the CVO of Steps and Stages Coaching, LLC. Brown received a BFA in Dance and a minor in Business from UNCG and her MFA in New Media Art and Technology from LIU. Brown is a native of Kinston, NC where while serving as her mother’s sidekick, she learned the mechanisms of cultural organizing and the organic synthesis of art and activism. Her path of self-discovery has been influenced by trailblazers such as Chuck Davis, Bill T. Jones, Andrea E. Woods, Liz Lerman, Bebe Miller, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Brown is a mover and a warrior of change and transformation. Brown combines her athleticism, creativity, love for people, and passion for teaching to create works that redefine the art of dance, the creation of identity and structures of power.
INSPIRIT was founded in 2000 by Christal Brown. Since its inception, INSPIRIT has grown to be an incubation tank, providing training in executive, artistic, and educational skills. In addition to having performed in various venues across the United States the company has also been in residence at colleges and universities while creating strong ties with various communities of young women nationwide through Project: BECOMING.
INSPIRIT's vision includes providing a forum for collaboration among emerging artists and choreographers, promoting public appreciation of contemporary dance works, educating the general public about dance by sponsoring affordable and accessible performances in community based venues, encouraging interest in dance among youth through outreach and within public schools, developing the technical abilities and overall talent of young and unrecognized artist of all genres, races, and gender.
INSPIRIT has grown from a performance ensemble to a methodology for collaboration, creativity, and community building. Using the artist/executive model as a basis for creative process INSPIRIT has formed a replicable structure of art-making and social change.
Additional Content:
What We Ask of Flesh (excerpt of premiere)
Excerpt of premiere at Middlebury College in November of 2023
Christal Brown and Lida Winfield discuss "Same but Different" in 10 episode podcast.
Performed at Joes Pub, excerpt from The Life Cycle Series
Dance Workshop with Christal Brown
Dance workshop with Christal Brown at Keene State College
What We Ask of Flesh - Arts Across America
What We Ask of Flesh on the virtual Arts Across America Stage sponsored by The Kennedy Center and Facebook in partnership with The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and the New England Foundation for the Arts.
all male cast embodying the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali
Whispers, Secrets, and Silent Screams
Work created for The Earl Mosely Institute for the Arts
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Performing Group
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Commercial / For profit - Corporation
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2005
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Performing Group
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Year Founded:
2005
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$500 - $12,000State of Residence:
VermontMinimum Number of Performers:
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