About
Russell Patrick Brown is a Romungró (Romani) dance writer, artist–engineer and founder of Timedancers—a studio weaving dance, technology and story to resist the colonization of land, technologies and human will through impact-driven dance.
What I do
- Writing & Research: original essays, practice-based research and editorial collaborations.
- Performance & Speaking: stage work, lecture-demonstrations and talks on movement, attention and technology.
- Tech & Culture: product strategy and creative engineering for humane tools and media.
- Podcast & Media: who is allowed to fall (2025) explores current events through the languages of dance and sound.
- Romani Activism: everything I can
Selected work
Research includes Choreonavigation (2022) and Intimate Violence: Feeling Impact in Irish Step Dance (2024). These projects sit inside Timedancers’ broader practice of embodied methods and media.
Background
Holding an MA from New York University and a PhD in Dance from the University of Limerick, Russell investigates how movement, impact, and attention shape human experience—on stage, in daily life, and inside our tools.
He comes from a Romani family of musicians, dancers, fortune tellers and embodied technologists (see the Roma Futurism Manifesto). He has led software engineering teams for major publishers, performed Irish step dance since childhood, and learned to move his arms in Vogue on the Christopher Street Pier in New York City with members of the Ballroom/House community.
Work with Russell
If you’re building humane technology, commissioning writing, curating performances or inviting a talk/workshop, I’d love to hear from you.