We’re so pleased to announce our 2019 New Releases Commissioned Artist, Bre Seals! Bre will receive financial support and a Space Grant to create a new work which will premiere in Spring 2020 at the New Releases Showcase.
About the Artist
Bre Seals articulates her feeling of service to the community through choreographed dancing, colorful depictions of artistry, and her spirit of joy through movement. A native of Atlanta, GA, she studied the arts of ballet, modern, and contemporary. By age 18, graduating from Tri Cities Visual Performing Arts Magnet High School, Seals still finds herself eager to learn, evolve, and become a well-rounded choreographer. Receiving her academic dance training at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA) 2011- 2012, Howard University (Washington, DC) 2013-2015, she’s been granted unique opportunities to work, choreograph, and train with various international and renowned choreographers. Motivated to tell stories from her own lens and dance style, in 2013, BREathe Dance Project was founded as a professional dance company. Seals’ choreography has been recognized at TEDXTalk and the International Association of Blacks In Dance Conference and Festival. Her work has been performed at venues including The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Millennium Stage, Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theatre, Ira Aldridge Theatre, Lisner Auditorium, Theatre at Dayton Convention Center, Dance Loft on 14 Theatre and Dance Place. Her newest work, Trials to Freedom, will premiere at The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Millennium Stage next year in February 2020.
As an Artistic Director, Bre Seals finds true hope and purpose in producing her own works, as it serves as a testimony and lesson to others. Expressing from the heart, the soul, and peace of artistic clarity, she is able to convey pleasure through her work as an artist and as a African American woman who experiences synesthesia. As she embraces the ability to associate movement, texture, and sound with color, Bre Seals is giving the opportunity to share her unique ability of experiencing the sensation of colors in a way that only her choreography brings justice to describe.