Rediscover your first language: your body.
Timedancers embody time through repetition, cycles and deep listening—reclaiming history, movement and destiny.
Impact-driven dance is one entry point, centering life-supporting practices in human movement through percussive rhythm and repeated contact with the ground.
I'm Russell Patrick Brown, PhD, a Romani Irish step dancer, researcher and movement educator. I teach impact-driven dance through snaps, claps, taps, slaps, and stomps—alongside acrobatic training and embodied practice—and study the hidden histories carried in our bodies.
What Is Impact-Driven Dance?
Impact-driven dance examines rhythm as repetition shaped by survival through percussive movement. Across clogging, tap and step dance, repetition carries history, builds skill and organizes experience in the body.
The Book
Feeling Impact: A Timedancers Study in Irish Step Dance
A personal narrative across centuries and continents—tracing how Irish step dance carries and transforms histories of collision, labor, survival and joy, including unclaimed Romani histories. Based on my PhD research at the University of Limerick.
Time as Practice
Timedancing unfolds through four cycles—Wayfind, Impact, Fall and Build—moving through orientation, contact, release and renewal. I publish essays and practice notes connecting these stages to current events, movement and lived experience.
Work With Me
Workshops & Retreats
I teach impact-driven dance, handstands and somatic practices through workshops and retreats.
Private sessions available by request (movement training + intuitive practice design).
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How We Move
🧭 Wayfind
How we orient through motion and attention.
Anchored by Choreonavigation — a study in sensing, listening and navigating by feel across time and space.
🎯 Impact
How we meet the ground and the world's consequence.
Grounded in Feeling Impact — a book on contact, power and the embodied politics of rhythm.
🍂 Fall
How we surrender, yield and learn from descent.
Centered on Who Is Allowed to Fall — a podcast and essay series on gravity, vulnerability and permission.
🌱 Build
How we renew and grow again through story, music and myth.
Flowing through Mercy of Trees — a mythic cycle of regeneration and creative return.
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