Russell Patrick Brown, PhD
Romani dance writer, harper and software engineer
I'm Russell Patrick Brown, PhD — a Romani dance writer, harper and creative technologist exploring how movement shapes our sense of time, freedom and relation. I founded Timedancers as a living practice where choreography becomes a way of knowing — a bridge between body, story and technology.
My research began in Irish step dance and grew into a broader question: how can we move through the world with awareness, with impact, with the courage to fall and the imagination to build again? That question became the four gestures of the Timedancers Method —Wayfind, Impact, Fall and Build — which guide my writing, performance and teaching today.
I hold a PhD in Dance from the University of Limerick, an MA from New York University and a BA in Music from Baldwin Wallace Conservatory. My work moves between scholarship, performance and design — from the book Feeling Impact to the mythic world of Mercy of Trees, to a growing field of embodied technology and digital practice.
Timedancers continues to evolve as a practice for anyone seeking to move freely again — in body, story and life.
For artistic work and performances, visit Russell.dance. For academic and professional credentials, see my CV.
What I Do
- Writing & Research — essays and studies on movement, attention and technology
- Performance & Speaking — harp, step dance and lecture-demonstrations on embodied knowledge
- Design & Development — building humane digital tools for learning and reflection
- Teaching & Gatherings — workshops and retreats linking somatics, story and spiritual development
Origins
Timedancers began as an artistic and research movement to reclaim the wisdom of the body — to remember what the world forgets. It draws from Romani dance lineages, contemporary research and ecological thought to reimagine how movement might guide us through change.
Through writing, practice and community, the project continues to grow — not as an institution, but as an invitation: your freedom already moves in you.