Curriculum Vitae
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2013-2015: le Centre national de la danse contemporaine (Angers, France)
Diploma received: Level 3 license in Performance Dance and Arts Management
Under the direction of Robert Swinston. This program consisted of two parts: Performance Dance and Arts Management.
Performance Dance consisted of learning historical and contemporary Modern Dance techniques from the United States and from Europe. Techniques and Choreographers included Germaine Acogny (Senegal), Pina Bausch, Merce Cunningham, Gaga (Israel/Palestine), Jean-Claude Galotta, Martha Graham, José Limon, Alwin Nicholais, Hofesh Shechter, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.
Theoretical classes include Dance History, Dance Theory, and Music Theory.
Choreographic project: Belly (2015) - Exploration of my Id (from Freud's theory of the Psyche: Ego, Super Ego, and the Id).
Arts Management consisted of courses such as Accounting, Marketing and Performing Arts Law.
Internships: Chloé Moglia (2013), Yoann Bourgeois (2014), Festival Carmagnole (Montréal, QB, Canada, 2015).
2009-2012: The Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (London, England)
Diploma received: BA (Hons) Dance Performance
Techniques: Skinner Release Technique, Cunningham, Graham, Contact Improvisation, Ballet, Butoh, Pilates.
Theoretical and other courses: Choreography, Dance History, Cultural Aesthetics, Choreutics (Laban Movement Analysis), Labanotation, Dance Professionalism (Career Options and professional placement schemes: Internship with Dance Theater Ireland), Dance Pedagogy.
Independent Project: Soul (2012) - Installation, an Investigation of the image of my soul. Chosen for 2012 Graduate Showcase.
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2018: Laban Movement Analysis Level 1 training and certificate
Professor: Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb
2012: 3 week Butoh training, Tokyo, Japan
Professor: Tetsuro Fukuhara
2007-2009: Perpich Center for Arts Education
Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Choreography, Music for Dancers
Diploma received: High School Diploma
2007: Minnesota Dance Theater
Ballet, Pointe, Variations
2006, 2007: Milwaukee Ballet School Summer Dance Intensive
Ballet, Pointe, Variations, Repertoire, Jazz, Irish Step Dance, African, Pilates
2002-2009: Allegro School of Dance and Music
Ballet, Modern, Lyrical
1993-2002: Janet Lang Dance Studios
Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Ballroom Dance
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2024-present: Artist in Residence at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve and the CBS Conservatory & Botanical Collections
2023: Alliance Française Mpls/St. Paul - Residency
From November 30 to December 15, Analog Dance Works inhabited the Alliance Française’s art gallery and Grande Salle to test out a set design for their production, The Awe Factor or in French, L’Effet Waouh.
2023: Metro Regional Arts Council: Flexible Support Grant
2023: Playa Summer Lake Artist Residency
2020: Metro Regional Arts Council: Project Support Grant
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The Awe Factor (2024, 62 minutes)
Premiered at the TEK BOX at Hennepin Center for the Arts, May 2024. Produced by Analog Dance Works
Awe is an emotion that allows us to transcend our current understanding of the world. It has been found that awe helps us form communities, breaks down the sentiment of ‘us’ vs. ‘them’, and that little bursts of awe help us to be humbler. It Is my belief that awe can be a tool to help us work together to manage not just climate change but other major issues we face today.
This work interweaves the science of awe with single use plastic waste. In this fantastical and surreal world, 10 dancers examine how we access awe, what we do when we are confronted by it, and how we can harness this emotion to better our collective lives.
Devolve (2023, 15 minutes)
Premiered at the TEK BOX at the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts. Commissioned by Threads Dance Project’s Tapestries 7.0 Program
This work is about a functioning system that devolves by both outside forces and internal flaws. I approached this idea with two different lenses: one being climate change, the other being awe.
Climate Change is an enraging topic for me because I define nature as my religion. To see it receding as it is inevitably bulldozed in the name of progress fills me with agonizing grief and hopelessness. I chose awe as the second lens for two reasons. The first is to try to see climate change from a different perspective, and the second is to help me remain objective through the creative process.
Sticky (2022, 16 minutes)
Presented at River’s Edge Performance Series July, 2022
This short work is an exploration of trying to process my emotions of benefiting from capitalism, colonization, and ultimately climate change due to the color of my skin and class I was born into. This dance represents the fleeting moment that feels like it lasts forever that is stuffed full of complex layered emotions such as guilt, sadness, denial, awe, and disparate hope.
Serve Id (2022, 29 minutes)Presented at the TEK BOX at the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, May 2022. Produced by Analog Dance Works
Serve Id catapults us into Minnesota's natural environment. The title takes inspiration from Cervidae–the taxonomic name for the deer family, and the concept of the Id–one of the three selves defined by Sigmund Freud as the animalistic instinctual self. In the work, we joyfully, selfishly, and wholeheartedly dance to 'serve our id' through the seasons. This dance is an ode to our climate in Minnesota as we know it before it slips through our fingers into memory because of climate change.
Cycles (2022, 15 minutes)
Premiered at the Southern Theater, March 2022. Commissioned by Alternative Motion Project
Meditations around the night sky. This work is inspired by the science of auroras.
Regeneration (2018, 25 minutes)
Supported by the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts through their community outreach program, The Generating Room: Open Proposal Initiative.
Regeneration is a dramatized hypothesis of evolution in an unknown environment.
Works in Progress:
Biomes (2026)
Choreographic work to be produced by Analog Dance Works, in development. Supported by the Artist in Residence program at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve and CBS Conservatory and Botanical Collections.
Stewards examines the concept of ownership, focusing on consumerism and stewardship as two extremes. Consumerism revolves around people acting transactionally and assuming ownership of unlimited resources, while stewardship suggests caring for things rather than owning them. This research is inspired by my experience growing up in a suburban environment that contributes to climate change. It questions the need for large, oil-derived houses and the separation of designated natural areas from everyday life. The goal of this phase is to unearth the rhizomes of our collective needs, our individual wants, our sacrifices, and our inactions.
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Current
2025-Present: E Martin Dance
2023-Present: Ruby Josephine Dance Theater
2019-Present: Threads Dance Project
Dancing in works by Artistic Director, Karen Charles, and guest choreographers DejaJoelle, Leila Awadallah, Julie Marie Muskat, Jennifer Pray, Gabrielle Abram, Elayna Waxse, Nieya Amezquita, Ruby Josephine Smith, Yuki Tokuda, Erinn Liebhard, Shoko Tomai, Averie Mitchell-Brown, Da’Rius Malone, Hannah Mackenzie-Marguiles.
2019-Present: Zoë Koenig
Past
2023-2024: 43x94 Movement Research
2018-2024: Bernadette Knaeble
2018-2023: Alternative Motion Project
Danced in works by Artistic Directors Kristin Howe and Joanna Lees, and guest choreographers Laura Selle-Vertucio, Erinn Liebhard, Leila and Noelle Awadallah, Zoë Koenig, Brianna Johnson.
2019: It Took a Night to Believe by Emilie Pitoiset, hosted by the Goethe Pop Up Minneapolis
2018-2019: Jennifer Glaws/Jagged Moves
2016-2018: ARENA Dances
2016, 2018: Laurie Van Wieren’s Fieldworks
2016-2017: Cesar Forero (Toronto, ON)
2016: Rochester Art Ensemble
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2017-2019: Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts (Winona, MN)
Modern 1 and 2, Jazz 1 and 2, HCO, Chaperone for Summer Dance Intensive
2015-2018: Allegro School of Dance and Music (Rochester, MN)
Substitute Teacher for Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Lyrical, Acrobatics
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2019 - Present: Analog Dance Works
Analog Dance Works explores the intersection between Dance and Science through choreographic works and roundtable discussions.
Tellus Production: 2022
The Awe Factor Production: 2024
Biomes Production: 2026 (in development)
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October 31, 2024: Studio Stories - New Breed - Brenna Mosser Season 15, Episode 165
2024 Hennepin Theater Trust: It’s the People: Tom Smouse, photographer
November 27, 2023: Canvas Rebel ‘Meet Brenna Mosser’
Threads Dance Project Tapestries 7.0 Choreography Program Interview
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2020-2021: Threads Dance Project
Company Manager
2016, 2017: Conservation Corps of Minnesota and Iowa
Crew member (2016), Crew leader (2017) in South East chapter, State Parks crew.
Reported to Shawn Fritcher, Natural Resource Manager. Worked in Whitewater State Park, Carly State Park, Great River Bluffs State Park, Frontenac State Park, Rice Lake State Park, Lake Louise State Park, Nerstrand Big Woods State Park, Beaver Creek State Park.
Duties included:
Invasive plant species control (Garlic Mustard, Honeysuckle, Buckthorn, Black Locust, Japanese Barberry, Oriental Bittersweet, Queen Anne’s Lace, Wild Parsnip)
Building firebreaks, prescribed burning
Collecting and drying prairie seed, seeding restoration sites
Crew leader tasks: Daily and chemical reports, delegation of tasks to crew members in order to complete projects assigned by Fritcher, enforce safety protocols, equipment checks
Skills include:
Chainsaw certification
Chemical spray certification
Wilderness first aid certification
2016: Rochester Art Ensemble
Treasurer for 2016 season of Day of the Dead Poet Slam.
Duties include tracking the budget, preparing financial reports for Minnesota State Arts Board.