About

I remember the world through rhythm. My body carries stories older than memory — Romani bloodlines that taught me time is not a line but a circle, Irish soil that holds the echo of ancient steps, queer community that showed me how to dance against the grain of what others expect.

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.

This is a story about remembering the world through rhythm — 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.

Through Timedancers, I help 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.

My work has been based in New York City and County Clare, Ireland, and I continue to collaborate with artist and activist collaborators across the world.