Painted Bride

This Summer. We Skate. We Dance.

Brownbody, the Twin Cities-based all-Black dance company, begins a multi-phase collaboration with Painted Bride Project Space. It kicks off NEXT WEEK with a Screening and Sneak Preview!

Brownbody Screening + Sneak Preview
June 9 | 6:30–9:30 PM
Painted Bride Project Space
4029 Cambridge St., East Parkside

An evening of film, immersive projection, artistic conversation, and early public preview material featuring:

Tracing Sacred Steps by Deneane Richburg
(Brownbody Artistic Executive Director & Choreographer)

Infinite Slow Drive/Obsidians in the Wild (Trailer) by Lela Aisha
(Project Community & Culture Artistic Director and Brownbody Associate Artistic Director)

Learn more and RSVP: https://paintedbride.org/projects/brownbody-at-project-space-beyond/

Due to very recent health developments within The Becoming cast, the presentation of that installation and the performances, scheduled at the Painted Bride Art Center for June 5-7, have been canceled. Creator Shavon Norris, the cast, and the entire creative team of The Becoming are disappointed by the disruption of the process of bringing to public view this searching and intimate look into the lives, occupations, and visioning of young Black girls/women. They, and we at ArtPhilly, want to present it at a time when it can have its truest and most impactful manifestation. Please stay tuned for rescheduling of The Becoming, most likely in Fall 2026, and meanwhile, lend your support to the other amazing projects that make up the ArtPhilly festival.

The Becoming | ArtPhilly Shavon Norris (artist, educator, facilitator) is placing herself in the continuum of Black womanhood. In collaboration with legendary dancer, professor and choreographer Germaine Ingram, she is embracing and investigating the role of elder to five women, ages 11 through 40.

Counting down the weeks! We're so excited to be a part of the West Park Arts Fest this year!