Brianna Taylor
​(Greensboro, NC)








Brianna Taylor is a multidisciplinary movement artist, choreographer, performer, teacher, and investigator. Her work explores intersections between movement, language, sound and objects. She holds an MFA in Choreography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a B.A. in Dance from the University of Colorado, Boulder. 

Brianna is the founder and artistic director of Confluence Performance Project, a multi-disciplinary performance group based in Greensboro, NC. Her work has been showcased in the San Francisco Bay area, Greensboro, NC, Boulder, CO, Portland, OR, Washington, DC, Paris, France, and Lausanne, Switzerland. She is a member of the multi-media performance ensemble Collapss (The Collective for Happy Sounds) collapss.com, also based in Greensboro. 

In 2008 Brianna co-founded SoShe’s Performance Collective in San Francisco, CA, where she continues to create work and perform.  In Boulder she was a company member of The Skeleton Dance Project with Onye Ozuzu, as well as Logo Ligi West African Dance Ensemble with the Mensah Brothers, and she co-directed the performance collective Separation Anxiety. She has collaborated and performed with a variety of artists around the United States, and in Ghana, West Africa. Brianna teaches as an adjunct professor at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Elon University and Salem College.

Brianna is also a certified yoga instructor since 2003, and teaches classes at various studios in Greensboro, including Greensboro Downtown Yoga, Radiance Yoga and Free Spirit Yoga, LLC.  To read Brianna's yoga teaching resume click 

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Artist Statement

My work investigates the spaces between the known and unknown, the past and present, the traditional and contemporary. It asks questions about life’s mysteries and injustices, and searches for answers through an active engagement in movement, which I see as the thread that connects all living beings. Through dance, I attempt to expand my understanding of the world through the human form as I integrate the movement sensibilities of contemporary, improvisation and African dance with the energetic and spiritual investigation of yoga and tai chi. In this way, my work strives to shed light on questions of living in the world, as spiritual beings, which can at once be passionate, messy, complicated and beautiful. As a woman much of my work is self-reflective, inquiring about women’s issues and history related to reproductive health and freedom, balancing motherhood with career paths, and establishing a strong female voice in a society structured by patriarchal systems. I investigate these questions by creating community in my work, both in process and product, where I strive to include the voices of those with whom I collaborate, as well as the audience members who experience the work. I created lineages/latitudes as a part of an ongoing inquiry around lineage/heritage, motherhood, colonialism, privilege, interracial relationships and intercultural artistic fusions. It is also an attempt to create conversation around race, appropriation, the practice of cultural forms by non-native practitioners, and abortion.

Where you can see this artist's work:

'LINEAGES/LATITUDES' 
Sunday, July 10th, 2016  
12pm at Carolina Beach, Access #6 
​8pm at Carolina beach access #6
 

This work intersects with the topics <vibrations><visions><voices> in multiple ways. It intersects with Vibrations as it connects to the vibrations of the ocean, and well as the potential of ritual, also a vibration, to heal a person or a community. The works calls on voices of ancestors, my own and those of community/audience members, as well as voices and dreams of their children. And it asks for visions for the future that connect cultures and communities, and through this makes a humble attempt to heal wounds of colonial histories.