3 Minutes Moving: Bernard Brown - Dunham Technique Isolations

3 Minutes Moving (3MM) provides easy access to physical engagement with three-minute movement experiences presented by master teachers in dance, martial arts, and contemplative movement practices. These practices are for every body; no previous movement training is needed.
Bernard Brown - Dunham Technique Isolations
The Katherine Dunham Dance Technique is a holistic system. Training the body, mind and spirit, the technique is grounded in three theories (Form and Function, Intercultural Communication, Socialization through the Arts) and three philosophies (Self-Knowledge, Detachment, Discernment). The movement is based in African-Caribbean cultural dances as well as ballet and modern dance.
Bernard Brown, Artistic Director of Bernard Brown/bbmoves, is an artist-citizen who situates his work at the intersection of blackness, belonging, and memory. In addition to presenting his scholarship on blackness, queerness, and post-modern dance at conferences across the US, Bernard’s choreography is presented widely, including Seoul, S. Korea, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. Recipient of the Westfield Emerging Artist and Lester Horton Awards, Bernard has been featured in Dance Magazine, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times for his dance activism. Some career highlights include a twenty-year tenure at Lula Washington Dance Theatre, where he was principal dancer, rehearsal director and assistant to the Artistic Director, Lula Washington, restaging Donald McKayle’s canonical “Games” for the Kennedy Center's Masters of African American Choreography, performing on the Daytime Emmy’s, in Penumbra Theater’s “Black Nativity,” Donald Byrd’s “Harlem Nutcracker,” being invited to perform with Mikhail Baryshnikov in Robert Wilson’s “Letter to a Man” with choreography by Lucinda Childs, and being the titular dancer in Nike’s “12 Miles North: The Nick Gabaldon Story,” the first documented Afro-Mexican American surfer. He is Assistant Professor of Dance at Sacramento State University and a Certified Katherine Dunham Instructor Candidate. The LA Times has called him “…the incomparable Bernard Brown…”
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Artistic Director, Bernard Brown/bbmoves
Assistant Professor, Sacramento State University
3MM is a project of UCSC Online Education in collaboration with the Dance Faculty of UCSC’s Theater Arts Department, with support from Porter College and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.