Marissa Brown is a contemporary choreographer, dancer, creative director, and filmmaker based out of Los Angeles, CA. Brown offers uninhibited physical movements connected to personal truths. She has her BFA in performance and choreography from University of California Irvine and MFA from California Institute of the Arts.

Her work has been shown with NAVEL, MOCA Geffen, REDCAT, CURRENT SESSIONS, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, BAX Upstart Festival, IDACO Festival, MNE Emerging Choreographer Series, RAD Fest, and Aesthetica Short Film Festival. She has received residencies from Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts and White Leaves both in New Mexico, Gallim X Create: ART in New York, and with LA Dance Project: 2245 Choreographic Residency in California. Her work has been commissioned for ODC Theater State of Play Festival, dance companies The Assembly and Oquirrh West Project, and for brand American Apparel. She is an artist in residence at Art Share L.A. and recently showed work publicly with the city of Los Angeles as part of the Collective Memory Installation.

Brown currently performs with Dimitri Chamblas. In the past she was a dancer with LA Dance Project Benjamin Millipied’s company and before that she performed in Ivo Van Hove’s rendition of West Side Story Broadway. She has had the pleasure to work with choreographers and companies such as Donald Mckayle, Benjamin Levy, Brice Mousset, Randy James, Sharp & Fine, The Park Avenue Armory, Phantom Limb Company, Alexandra Pirici, Patricia Norowol Dance Theatre, and Xu Zhen at MOCA, Los Angeles.

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