Brittany Engel-Adams

Brittany Engel-Adams is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher living in New York City. She received her MFA in Dance from The University of the Arts. Brittany has danced with Yvonne Rainer, Okwui Okpokwasili, Pat Catterson, Pam Tanowitz, Netta Yerushalmy, Emily Coates, Donna Uchizono, Annie–B Parson, Ailey ll and more. Brittany performed across disciplines for projects like Sleep No More (immersive theater); The White Album (multimedia theater) directed by Lars Jan; 10019 (site-specific performance) choreographed by Naomi Goldberg Haas. She is a co-star in the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire and is featured in the film Chiraq directed by Spike Lee.

Brittany uses digital technologies in her choreographic work to interrogate the way we perceive the here and now and to test the limits or the capaciousness of the imagination. Her work has been presented at Works and Process at The Guggenheim Museum; Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater at Rutgers University; Symphony Space, PS261, and Kumble Theater in New York City.

Currently, Brittany is on the faculty at Rutgers University and NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing and performs with Pam Tanowitz Dance and Big Dance Theater.