I am Russell Patrick Brown, a Romungró (Romani) dance writer, harper and technologist working where movement, story and technology meet.

My creative world is Mercy of Trees — a living mythology grown from my doctoral research, my heritage and years of performance. It is a story about remembering the world through rhythm — and how dance, sound and imagination can renew our sense of belonging to land and to one another.

From that world grew Timedancers — my teaching practice for dance worldbuilding. It is a way of helping others design worlds through embodiment: to understand time not as a schedule but as a rhythm we can live by, to make technology more human and to build communities that move with care.

I am interested in how choreography shapes not only bodies but futures — how rhythm becomes a kind of architecture for life. Through performances, workshops and digital experiments, I invite others to move differently and sense the worlds we might still create.

Background

I hold a PhD in Dance from the University of Limerick and an MA from New York University, with a BA in Music focused on Dalcroze Eurythmics and Arts Administration. My path weaves Romani, Irish and queer traditions of dance and storytelling, from step dance stages to the Christopher Street Pier in New York.

I have performed internationally — with RTÉ, BBC, Mabou Mines, Darrah Carr Dance and others — and I continue to develop cross-disciplinary work linking performance, somatics and technology.

I now live between County Clare, Ireland, and a network of artist and activist collaborators across the world.