SPRING DANCE CONCERT - 2025

Join us as ANOTHER FEARLESS CAST presents bold new work and notable concert repertoire in a collective performance of communal practice, multi-media aesthetics, and radical re-alignment of what it might mean to move, together.

Jessica Denson (she/her) is a DC-based, interdisciplinary performing artist/director, educator, arts administrator, and community organizer whose interests reside in crafting opportunities for authenticity, dialogue, and healing through creative expression, particularly as they relate to historically marginalized populations.
Her performance, directing, and design experience includes: Contradiction Dance Theatre*, MK Abadoo/MKArts, Deborah Riley Dance Projects, Krystal Collins/New Growth Collective, darlingdance, HollyBass360, Claire Alrich, Gesel Mason Performance Projects, Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Sydnie L. Mosley/Dances (dancer swing, Purple), Victor Provost, Nick Cave (the American sculptor/dancer), Lesole’s Dance Project, Blues Alley Jazz (headlining vocalist), Fieldwork@Dance Place (show director, facilitator, and performer), and various other projects.
Jessica is currently on dance faculty at The George Washington University, faculty at Sitar Arts Center^, administrator at CityDance Conservatory. She has trained at the Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute and received certification researching dances of the Southern Region of Africa from École des Sables, in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal. Her graduate research on creating a community-based intervention exploring embodied discussions on mental health was presented at the Shades of Resilience Conference for Mental Health in Communities of Color at Loyola University, the DC Coalition for the Homeless, and at Hillcrest Child and Family Center. She is a 500hr RYT yoga instructor, Fieldwork facilitator, and co-organizer of the Women Dance Artists of Color-DMV. Jessica is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park with a BA in Dance and GWU with an MFA in Dance (Maida Withers Impact Award).
*director/co-choreographer for Little White Lies, 2018 Capital Fringe Festival “Best Dance” winner
^ member of the board of trustees and chair of DEIB Committee.

Brendan Drake (all pronouns) is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and currently, the Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at The Corcoran School of Arts and Design at George Washington University. Their work uses disparate movement forms, text, and sound manipulation to interrogate issues surrounding gender, vanity, and queer power dynamics. Brendan was a 2017-2018 Fresh Tracks Artist at New York Live Arts and has been awarded grants and residencies through the Brooklyn Arts Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, CUNY Dance Initiative, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Monira Foundation, The Tank, and Chez Bushwick. Their recent work has been presented In New York at Kestrels, Danspace Project (Draftwork), Movement Research, The Brick, La MaMa, PAGEANT, Joes Pub, The Wild Project, and AUNTS, and at JrHigh (Los Angeles, CA), Fowler Museum (Los Angeles, CA) and The Dance Complex (Boston, MA). In addition to their work for the stage, Brendan choreographed the fall 2014 “Equality = Love'' campaign for Adidas Originals/Pharrell Williams. They were the movement coordinator for editorial shoots with Vogue, Porter, V, and Elle Magazines (photographers: Liz Collins, Ryan McGinley, Collier Schorr). In May 2023, they presented their graduate research on tracking queer sociality in contemporary dance and performance at the UCLA National Queer Graduate Conference, and in June 2025, will present their research at the Dance Studies Association National Conference at GWU. Brendan has guest taught at UCLA, Columbia University, the University of Massachusetts, Muhlenberg College, DeSales University, Ball State University, Skewl, Peridance, SCDT, Loculus, and the New York Film Academy. As a dancer and performer, They currently work with Nattie + Hollis, and Kayla Hamilton/Circle O. Brendan holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MFA in Choreographic Inquiry from UCLA.

Alice Doré is a dancer, writer, teaching artist, and choreographer based in Washington, D.C., passionate about building quirky and abstract movement that invests in theatricality and challenges expectation through humor and character work. She has choreographed for a wide range of performances, from children’s theatre to collegiate acapella to the post-modern concert stage. Alice is deeply experienced in theater education, which supports her goals as a choreographer and performance-artist. She thrives in any opportunity to uplift performers of all ages and technical abilities, and is driven by creating accessibility and community within both theatre and dance spaces. Alice hopes to choreograph professionally, whether that means as an educator, or within a traditional concert dance, theater, or contemporary dance space.

Trisha Brown 1936-2017

One of the most acclaimed and influential choreographers and dancers of her time, Trisha’s groundbreaking work forever changed the landscape of art. From her birthplace roots in rural Aberdeen, Washington, Brown – a 1958 graduate of Mills College Dance Department – arrived in New York in 1961. A student of Ann Halprin, Brown participated in the choreographic composition workshops taught by Robert Dunn – from which Judson Dance Theater was born – greatly contributing to the fervent of interdisciplinary creativity that defined 1960s New York. Expanding the physical behaviors that qualified as dance, she discovered the extraordinary in the everyday, and brought tasks, rulegames, natural movement, and improvisation into the making of choreography.

With the founding of the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1970, Brown set off on her own distinctive path of artistic investigation and ceaseless experimentation, which extended for forty years. The creator of over 100 choreographies and six operas, and a graphic artist, whose drawings have earned recognition in numerous museum exhibitions and collections, Brown’s earliest works took impetus from the cityscape of downtown SoHo, where she was a pioneering settler. In the 1970s, as Brown strove to invent an original abstract movement language – one of her singular achievements – it was art galleries, museums, and international exhibitions that provided her work its most important presentation context. Indeed, contemporary projects to introduce choreography to the museum setting are unthinkable apart from the exemplary model that Brown established.

The Trisha Brown Dance Company is dedicated to the performance and preservation of the work of Trisha Brown and projects related to her legacy. Established in 1970, TBDC has toured throughout the world presenting work, teaching, and building relationships with audiences and artists alike.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, 800 21st St NW, Washington, United States