color photo of Brendan, a white, male presenting dancer. Brendan has long curly brown hair and a beard. they are wearing a black mesh t shirt and are gesturing to themselves with a perplexed look on their face, as if to say "who me?"

Brendan Drake

(Bren-Den Drake)

All Pronouns with Respect

Choreographer, Director, Movement Director, Educator, Performance Artist and Dramaturg

Location:DMVBrooklyn

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Website: http://brendandrakechoreography.com

Biography

Brendan Drake is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and currently, the Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at The Corcoran School of Arts and Design at George Washington University. Their work uses disparate movement forms, erotic imagery, text, and sound manipulation to interrogate issues surrounding gender, vanity, and queer power dynamics. Brendan was a 2017-2018 Fresh Tracks Artist at New York Live Arts and has been awarded grants and residencies through the Brooklyn Arts Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, CUNY Dance Initiative, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Monira Foundation, The Tank, and Chez Bushwick. Their recent work has been presented at Danspace Project (Draftwork), Movement Research, The Brick, La MaMa, PAGEANT, Joes Pub, The Wild Project, AUNTS, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, JrHigh (Los Angeles, CA), Fowler Museum (Los Angeles, CA) and The Dance Complex (Boston, MA). In addition to their work for the stage, Brendan choreographed the fall 2014 “Equality = Love” campaign for Adidas Originals/Pharrell Williams. They were the movement coordinator for editorial shoots with Vogue, Porter, V, and Elle Magazines (photographers: Liz Collins, Ryan McGinley, Collier Schorr). They have guest taught at UCLA, Columbia Uni

Professional Experience

Artistic Director – Brendan Drake Choreography and Performance Projects

Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at George Washington University

Creative Director and Movement Coordinator (Freelance)

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Professional Areas of Expertise

Archivist / ArchivalArtistic/creative directionChoreographyCommunications/marketingCriticism/writingCurationDevelopmentDramaturgyEducation (teaching artistry)Higher educationProfessional trainingPhysicalJournalism/criticism/writingPerformanceProducingScholarship (academia, research, etc.)

Skills

ActingCopy editingCopywritingEmail marketingEvent planningGrant writingGraphic designMedia relationsResearchSocial media marketing

Dance Styles / Movement Techniques

BalletContemporaryExperimentalInterdisciplinaryJazzModernPostmodern

Media

Photo of a femme person in a black braw, black skirt and black face mask being engulfed in pink tulle fabric. the color of thje space is neon pink and the dancers arms are waving gracefully among the fabric.

Photo of a dancer in head to two black, wearing a mask that covers their face, mid kick. There is a spotlight on them and a red exit sign is in the background upper left corner.