Russell Patrick Brown
Come dance with me through time.
Bashaldo Gypsy dancer, harper, engineer and scholar.
Reclaim your rhythm now
Russell Patrick Brown
Come dance with me through time.
Bashaldo Gypsy dancer, harper, engineer and scholar.
Reclaim your rhythm now
I’m Russell Patrick Brown, PhD — I grew up traveling the same routes as my ancestors through the Great Lakes into the Appalachian Mountains and into Georgia. Formed across New York, Ireland and Spain, I carry a living Romani tradition of moving with time.
Feeling Impact
A study of Irish step dance, percussive rhythm and the hidden histories carried in the body.
Based on my PhD research at the University of Limerick. 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.
Gypsy Fires
I share hidden history written in our bodies from a American Bashaldo Gypsy perspective.
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