BROWN/JAMES PRESTON
Dancer,Choreographer,Teacher
Ballet, Modern
Originally from Indiana, James Brown is a graduate of Purdue University with a degree in political science. Since
moving to New England, he has been a featured soloist with many of the local ballet companies such as Festival
Ballet, Cadence Dance Project, Island Moving Company, Spindle City Ballet, Granite State Ballet and Ballet
Theater of Boston.
His solo roles have included Harlequin Doll, Trepak and Spanish in Nutcracker, as well as Puss-n-Boots and the
Jester in Sleeping Beauty and Jonathan and Renfield in Dracula. Besides classical repertoire, James has danced in
many contemporary and modern works.
Currently he is a dancer with Festival Ballet and Anna Myer and Dancers. In 2002, he founded the dance company
Modern Populus along with Beth Petkus and Meghan French and now serves as it's director and choreographer.
Among its achievements in 2003, in August MP performed its first full length concert and performed at On The
Corner Of Arts & Vine at Waterfire.
James is on the faculty of New Bedford Ballet, teaches choreographic workshops during Festival Ballets summer
intensive and has created and taught programs for inner-city children both in Providence and in Indianapolis,
Indiana. He works as an artist-in-residence thoughout New England public schools.
Dancer,Choreographer,Teacher
Ballet, Modern
Originally from Indiana, James Brown is a graduate of Purdue University with a degree in political science. Since
moving to New England, he has been a featured soloist with many of the local ballet companies such as Festival
Ballet, Cadence Dance Project, Island Moving Company, Spindle City Ballet, Granite State Ballet and Ballet
Theater of Boston.
His solo roles have included Harlequin Doll, Trepak and Spanish in Nutcracker, as well as Puss-n-Boots and the
Jester in Sleeping Beauty and Jonathan and Renfield in Dracula. Besides classical repertoire, James has danced in
many contemporary and modern works.
Currently he is a dancer with Festival Ballet and Anna Myer and Dancers. In 2002, he founded the dance company
Modern Populus along with Beth Petkus and Meghan French and now serves as it's director and choreographer.
Among its achievements in 2003, in August MP performed its first full length concert and performed at On The
Corner Of Arts & Vine at Waterfire.
James is on the faculty of New Bedford Ballet, teaches choreographic workshops during Festival Ballets summer
intensive and has created and taught programs for inner-city children both in Providence and in Indianapolis,
Indiana. He works as an artist-in-residence thoughout New England public schools.
| Hello, my name is James Brown. No, no, I'm not the king of soul! ______________________________ Well what to say about myself. Most of the people who will visit this site already know me ^^ I'm 35, single and gay. For the last decade I have been a professional ballet dancer, though I retired from performing full time recently. It was a rough transition giving up that life style. It had really been all I had ever known. Currently, I am a full time ballet teacher and though it is not what I want to do forever, I love teaching and am very fond of my students. What do I want to do with the rest of my life? Hard to say. I know I need to go back to college and find a new career but I'm not in any real hurry at the moment. Before I retired from my full time job as a ballet dancer, I began choreoghraphing. I found I had a knack for it and loved to do it. I began my own modern dance company called "Modern Populous" and shortly after produced my own concert of original works by myself and other up and coming choreographers. It was a big hit, thankfully, and we actually made a little money. Instead of loosing it. Which brings me to why my site is called "Dance Monkey Dance." Those of you who are not artists may not know or understand the kinds of sacrifice it takes to live as one here in America. Art is poorly supported and thus most who choose this path become "starving artists." "Dance Monkey Dance" has become a joke amoung my dancer friends because in our world we spend a lot of our time entertaining very wealthy people yet we live amoung the the very poor. As a member of my former dance company, I was required to attend many a galla champagne reception or event to honor all the wealthy folks that kept the company afloat. My friends and I began to dread these events because the painful irony was that though without us there would be no art, we recieved such small compensation for what we contributed. So we began to joke about putting on our "monkey suits" and dance for loose change. Like those funny lil' monkies with the fez hats and symbols in hand that dance when it's master plays his squeezebox ^^ |
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