Brianna Alexis Heath (she/her) is a dancer, writer, and cultural organizer currently based in Atlanta, GA. Bri is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago (BA) where she studied with Onye Ozuzu, Dr. Raquel Monroe, Dr. Peter Carpenter, Darrell Jones, Dr. Nicole Spigner, and Dr. Erin McCarthy among others. She is a recipient of the 2017 Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award for Outstanding BA Thesis in Cultural Studies for her undergraduate thesis: “Bodies as Living, Twirling, Sacrifices: Performing Black Girlhood, Liturgical Dance, and the Black Church Tradition," and the inaugural 2021 Pitts Theology Library Student Research Award for her essay "Frenzied H(e)avens: African American Post Exilic Realities in J'Sun Howard's aMoratorium."
Bri served as a dance critic for See Chicago Dance, and has published her writing in touching:blackstudy, a zine from the becoming undisciplined collective at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also a member of the Chicago-based, performance collective, Take Some Leave Some.
As a curator, Bri served as the co-director of the inaugural Black Arts Festival at Columbia College Chicago (2018), and the two-day gathering for emerging artists, Artist Convening (2019), in Kaduna and Abuja, Nigeria. Inspired by the work of Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Kelly Brown Douglas, Ashon T. Crawley, and E. Patrick Johnson, Bri's research interests include performance studies, writing as performance, Blackpentecostalism, and womanist theology. As the co-founder of D'atè Culture Foundation--a Nigeria-based arts and culture organization for emerging artists of African descent--Bri believes in the power of stories and creating spaces where artists of color can be supported in creating and sustaining fulfilling and impactful arts careers.
Bri served as a dance critic for See Chicago Dance, and has published her writing in touching:blackstudy, a zine from the becoming undisciplined collective at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also a member of the Chicago-based, performance collective, Take Some Leave Some.
As a curator, Bri served as the co-director of the inaugural Black Arts Festival at Columbia College Chicago (2018), and the two-day gathering for emerging artists, Artist Convening (2019), in Kaduna and Abuja, Nigeria. Inspired by the work of Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Kelly Brown Douglas, Ashon T. Crawley, and E. Patrick Johnson, Bri's research interests include performance studies, writing as performance, Blackpentecostalism, and womanist theology. As the co-founder of D'atè Culture Foundation--a Nigeria-based arts and culture organization for emerging artists of African descent--Bri believes in the power of stories and creating spaces where artists of color can be supported in creating and sustaining fulfilling and impactful arts careers.
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