About
I am a dancer, creator, and arts administrator based in Brooklyn, NY.
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I graduated from Barnard College summa cum laude with B.A.s in Dance and American Studies. ​My work, often in collaboration with Noa Weiss, has been presented at Pageant, JACK/Exponential Festival, Pioneers Go East OUTFront! Festival at Judson Church and Crossroads Festival at La Mama Moves, Target Margin, The Tank, Motion State Dance Film Festival, and more. Noa and I are 2024-2026 recipients of the Pioneer's Go East NEXT! Fellowship and have received funding/residency support from the Brooklyn Arts Council and MOtiVE Brooklyn. I currently also dance for Emily Kessler and have previously worked with Hope Mohr/Maxe Crandall and Grant Jacoby.
I currently serve as Development Manager of Danspace Project, Archive Manager for the Janet Fish Foundation and Company Manager for Juliana May and Anna Sperber. Previously, I have worked at Donna Uchizono Company, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Boston Dance Alliance, and Boston Center for the Arts.
Photo by Uila Marx
Artist Statement
Miranda brown & Noa Rui-Piin Weiss
We are collaborators working at the intersection of choreography, absurdity, and internet culture. Over the past five years, we’ve developed dance performances structured like stand-up sets, using light-hearted methods to investigate darker themes like the legitimacy of popular aesthetics and the terror of public failure. We value camp, using it to twist the norms of the proscenium stage and make dance accessible to people who are turned off by “high art.” Queerness guides our creative choices, alongside pleasure and legibility. We are attracted to meme culture – jokes that gain traction from repetition instead of ingenuity. We tip the balances between sincere and ironic, entertaining and cringe-worthy. We come from dance traditions that value individual artistic genius, and are interested in citing sources to uncover the absurdity of original thought.
Photo by Uila Marx