Performing Art – Baltimore
Sanchel Brown is a performer/choreographer originally from Baltimore, MD. Her performance credits include Urban Bush Women (Apprentice), Theatre Horizon's Black Nativity, The Kimmel Center’s Kinetic Tree Show and 2018 Jazz Residency, First World Theater’s Say He Had More Than A Dream, Freedom Theatre's Black Nativity,Let' Im Move You: This is a formation.(Tour) She is a 2015 Barrymore Award nominee for Best Lead Actress in a Musical and winner for Best Ensemble. Sanchel's teaching highlights include Mark Morris Dance Center, Drexel University, University of the Arts, Princeton, and Yale University. She is currently a teaching artist in residence with Cumbe Center of Diasporic Dance and teaching her original class titled “Bmore-Afro” fusing Baltimore House Dances and Traditional West African dances. Her choreography credits include Black Nativity (Freedom Theatre), Dreamgirls (Yale University), The Color Purple (Theatre Horizon:Regional Premiere) and her self-produced shows, Ode to Black Wombman (National Tour) and Home to Homeland. She has obtained her B.F.A from Virginia Commonwealth University and studied traditional dances of the African Diaspora at L'Ecolbe De Sable in Senegal, West Africa.
The Queen’s Collective founded by Sanchel Brown is an interchangeable collective of dance creatives who tell stories of present, past, and future that invoke healing in all whom witness and participate. Their most recent performance highlight is World of Dance Philadelphia 2K18.