Choreography

Allison Brown

Allison Brown, born in Canada, is a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Frankfurt. She has been a dancer with the New York City Ballet, Twyla Tharp and Dancers, Amanda Millerʼs Pretty Ugly Dance Company and Saburo Teshigawara's Karas Company. From 1996 to 2004 she was a member of William Forsytheʼs Ballet Frankfurt.

Following William Forsythe’s invitation, she has staged his works such as »Duo« and »workwithinwork« on various occasions for dance companies worldwide since 1999. As an instructor on Forsytheʼs »Improvisation Technologies«, she was part of the dance program P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium, and has also participated in numerous symposia, such as the »explorationen 07« at PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany. As a teacher Allison Brown has been leading workshops worldwide since 2000. Since 2009 she has been on faculty at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt and worked also with children and teenagers within the program of the Altana Kultur Stiftung and Tanzlabor_21 Frankfurt.

As a choreographer, Allison Brown has been creating her own works since 1998. These include works for Ballett Frankfurt, Pretty Ugly/Ballett Freiburg, the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt and the Transitions Dance Company Laban in London.