Bernard Brown is a performer, choreographer, arts activist, and educator who situates their work at the intersection of Blackness, Queerness, and memory. With an extensive ongoing performing career, Brown now serves as Director of Bernard Brown/bbmoves – a social justice dance company, choreographing for stage, specific sites, film, and opera. Brown’s choreography has been presented widely, including On the Boards, Dance Mission Theater, REDCAT, Royce Hall, Institute of Contemporary Art, Abrons Arts Center, Seoul International Dance Festival in TANK, and more. He choreographed Scott Joplin’s “Treemonisha” for Skylark Opera. Brown has received invitations, residencies, and commissions from Dance Italia, The Music Center, South Chicago Dance Theater, San Diego Dance Theater, among others. Their award-winning dance films have been screened in multiple countries including the Dance Camera West, ADF Movies by Movers(US), Manifest Dance Film Festival (India), Dance Camera Istanbul (Turkey), and the Oscar- qualifying African Diaspora Cinema Festival (Italy). Based in Los Angeles and San Diego, Brown facilitates workshops and master classes internationally, namely in Panama, Israel, Burkina Faso, and Brazil, and across the US including universities and community-centered organizations. A first-generation college graduate, Brown earned his MFA from UCLA and BFA from Purchase College. He is an Assistant Professor of Dance at UC San Diego, a Certified Katherine Dunham Technique Instructor, and is currently a California Arts Council Established Artist Fellow. The Los Angeles Times has called him “…the incomparable Bernard Brown…”