Brittany Bailey, born 1989 and raised in North Carolina. Lives and works as dancer/choreographer in NYC since 2008.
Bailey has performed with Marina Abramovic at MoMA (NYC), Michael Clark Company at the Tate Modern (London), and with The Whirling Dervishes of the Mevlevi Order of America (Israel and Turkey).
Bailey’s performance and dance works have been performed at Judson Church (NYC), Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique (Brussels), and Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg), among others.
Bailey currently collaborates with musician Bryce Hackford. They recently had a series of performances of “Light Dance with Girl” at Judson Church, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center and NADA Art Fair. Bailey and Hackford continue to collaborate; their next piece, “The Dance Warm-Up”, is a movement technique class for groups with improvised sound accompaniment (July 2013).
Bryce Hackford makes sound recordings that range from pop and art music to the field and sound for industrial use, performing with bands Behavior (WHIP) and Pearl Necklace (Smalltown Supersound), producing sound and music for theatrical work, film, dance, and experimenting extensively with DJ formats (including Deep Trouble).
Brittany Bailey and Bryce Hackford’s collaboration began in New York City with improvisational studio experimentation, which led to the piece “Light Dance with Girl”. The choreography and composition work in similar ways: they are modular pieces with sections of repetitions that are improvised in their performance. The entire pieces are also repeated. Set time restrictions have determined the length of each given performance.
Continuing an altered engagement with time and a deeper vocabulary through dialog and collaboration, their next piece takes the form of a class. The Dance Warm-Up will encourage an awareness towards all sensual experience and meaningful dialog. Along with the class, two thematically-linked objects will appear: a zine-style manual and an editioned acetate 12″ record, containing related text, images and sound.