Are you crying?
A dance film and Installation
Are you crying? depicts a woman in an ending. It’s the sensation of drifting further and further from a relationship, a home, the known. It’s a desire to make beauty out of a time of grief, processing, and growth.
A project by Marissa Brown with cinematography by Max Harper. This project was supported by the LA Department of Cultural Affairs 2023 Dance in the Districts Award.
[Full video available for viewing upon request]
Composing A Fall
A live dance work and video work
Commissioned by California Institute of the Arts and set on 13 dancers, Performed at REDCAT in Los Angeles May 2023
Composing A Fall explores the complexity held in the inner world with themes of the feminine emotional body, innocence and expression.
A project by Marissa Brown. Performers: Poppy Miller, Meena Manoj, Chloe Rauch, Annika Moseng, Madison Avery, Christina Carlos, Ainsley Beard, Selma Stocker, Piper Reinwald, Sundari Joseph, Shane Higa, Eden Algoso, Elliana Scott
How lonely sits the city
A collection of dance films, publicly wheat-pasted images, and an evening length live dance and film installation work
How lonely sits the city is a poetic layering of dance film and live performance that tells the quiet interior stories of Black identifying dancers who take on angelic-like characters. Personal and historical narratives unfold throughout the films that have been formed publicly in and around historically Black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, CA. In this moment, we open vast interior landscapes and embrace the multiplicity of our expression
The work also exists as photographs that have been wheat-pasted publicly around Los Angeles, CA as angelic tokens of hope.
A project by Marissa Brown, with Performance by Damontae Hack, Maya Allen, and Nadia Muhammad, Cinematography and Live work Lighting by Max Harper, Original Sound Score by Isaac Middleton and Ashley “Robi” Robicheaux, Photography by Josh Rose, Production support by Marlie Couto, and clothing by KkCo. This project and it’s creation has been supported by ODC Theater in San Francisco for the State of Play Festival, Art Share LA, LA Dance Project, Los Angeles Performance Practice for the LAX Festival, CalArts, and private donations to Lone King Projects.
[Full trio collection of films available for viewing upon request, Full video of Live work available upon request]
ROAM I & II
Dance fashion Films and Photography series
Photographs were displayed in Los Angeles in art share LA’s alumni gallery
Direction Marissa Brown, Performers Marlie Couto and Marissa Brown, Director of Photography Josh Rose, clothing by Toit Volant and kkco
The ocean is six miles deep
Live group performance presented as part of the REDCAT NOW Festival 2021
Visceral and highly physical movement approached with unclenched hearts drives the personal expression in choreographer Marissa Brown’s new Lone King Projects group work, The ocean is six miles deep. The work challenges the seemingly normal and pleasurable expectations of how we perceive one another and engages in creating a new language of desire. Posing the question, “How do you open deeper?,” the work invites an expansion in the vocabulary of beauty, desire, and the attraction of full and free expression.
Performed by Marissa Brown, Marlie Couto, and Mao
[Full performance available upon request]
You are lost
A dance video installation
I’ve built a structure for participants to come to a private outdoor location in Los Angeles and lay down and view the dance film I created titled You Are Lost. The film depicts a woman as a ghost, in a liminal space where she works to figure out who she is becoming as who she thought she was begins to disappear.
A project by Marissa Brown with Production Assistance by Marlie Couto, Photography by Josh Rose, Writing by E.T. Bayliss and support from California Institute of the Arts
[Full video available upon request]
the beloved
A series of short portrait dance films
the beloved is a series of short portrait dance films developed by Marissa Brown and commissioned by the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at California Institute of the Arts. Each episode highlights a CalArts dance student or alum and dives into questions around their current state and how they are navigating the state of the world around them as a young artist in 2020. These stories connect us back to our community during a time of social separation and remind us to believe in possibilities even when everything crashes against our best human and communal development.
[Full 14 film series available upon request]
Begin Slowly
A short dance film made in collaboration with music artist Holland Andrews and support from Traverse City Dance Project. This film looks at collective reflection in a time of slowness. It was created during the summer of 2020.
Do you want a summer romance?
A short dance and three-channel installation
A study on the relationship between memory and desire. Pulling from personal experiences, the film explores how we carry our memories and how we sit with the desire of an object that’s no longer there. We see a male figure, slow dancing, romanticizing the memory of a relationship represented by a blob of gold fringe in contrast with a female figure, muscles quaking, as she moves across bridges in order to leave behind memories of love and shake her still present desires.
Director Marissa Brown, Performed by Max Harper & Mao, Cinematography by Khadim Dai, Max Harper, and Simon Gulergun, Text written by E.T. Bayliss, Text Performed by James Majewski, Movement Direction by Marissa Brown, Sound Recording by Savannah Weymouth, Sound Score by Marissa Brown, Assistant Camera by Leonardo Pirondi, Color by Yikai Luc Wu, Editing Marissa Brown
The Raft
Live dance performance, short dance film, and two channel installation
The Raft, a two-channel installation that explores clubbing, youth identity, religion, and the uninhibited self through dance and film.
Director Marissa Brown, Cinematography by Simon Gulergun, AC Max Harper, Stage Lighting Design Macy Rupp, Additional Support Carla Linton, Choreographed by Marissa Brown, Editing Marissa Brown, Performed by Sky Spiegel Im Vorapharuek Orla Regan Lizzy Noriega Damontae Hack
