Chloe Sonnet Brown is a dancer, performance artist, and producer living in New York City. Chloe’s work focuses on expressing psychologically complex stories through conceptual dance performances. Chloe believes that movement is an innate form of human expression generated by deep emotion, and thus searches for the stories and feelings that can be expressed through dance even better than through words. Chloe's current interest is in implementing queer theory and psychological investigation into the stories she tells and the steps she creates. Chloe’s movement aesthetic is informed by her training in ballet, contemporary dance, and improvisation.
Chloe’s work “Terra: We have not yet touched the stars” for Norte Maar’s Counterpointe was performed at the Mark O'Donnell Theatre and featured by the Brooklyn Downtown Star, Pointe Magazine, and Dance Informa. Most recently, Chloe’s performance piece “Vessels” was performed at Greenspace and A Space Gallery. Chloe is the producer behind the company Body Artifacts, a performance incubator with a focus producing on inclusive, experiential, and cathartic dance performances.
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Education:
Pacific Northwest Ballet School 2007 – 2019
Directed by Peter Boal
Certificate in Contemporary Dance: Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet Training Program 2019-2021
Directed by Karah Abiog and Alonzo King
Professional Experience:
Company Artist at Spectrum Dance Theatre 2021- 2023
Co-Founder, Artistic Director of Ancient Lakes Dance Festival 2020-2021
www.ancientlakesdancefestival.com
Contemporary Dance Performance:
“Before I was a chicken I was an egg” Lulu Munteanu (Greenspace, Slowshare by Slow Dance 2024)
“The Harlem Nutcracker”,
“Occurrence 11”,
“Strange Fruit” “Grief”,
“Occurrence 10” by Donald Byrd in collaboration with the dancers of Spectrum Dance Theatre (2021-2023)
“Like Lead into the Sea” by Sarah Yasmine Marazzi Sassoon (2023)
“In Search of Something Real” by Gregory Dawson (Lines Ballet Training Program, 2021")
“Uncovering Form” by Sidra Bell (Lines Ballet Training Program, 2021")
“Flockwork”: Excerpts, by Alexander Ekman (Royal Danish Ballet Summer School, 2018)
Gallery Work:
“New Bodies” by Elena Dahn (Revolver Galleria, November 2023)
https://artspiel.org/at-the-limits-elena-dahn-at-revolver/
Ballet Performance Experience:
“Raymonda Variations”,
“Stars and Stripes”,
“Serenade” by George Balanchine, with Pacific Northwest Ballet School
“The Nutcracker”,
“Coppelia”,
“Cinderella” by Kent Stowell, with Pacific Northwest Ballet Company
Choreographic Work:
“Sonder” Ancient Lakes Dance Festival 2020
“Loop” Ancient Lakes Dance Festival 2021
“Vessels” for Fertile Ground, Greenspace Arts Incubator December 2023
“Terra: We have not yet touched the stars” for Counterpointe 11, Mark O’Donell Theatre March 2024
“Vessels 2” A Space Gallery March 2024