Lelis Brito is a Venezuelan-American theater director, choreographer, educator, performer, writer and director of the Center for Moving Cultures. As director of CMC Brito advocates for tactile/kinaesthetic knowledge in education and cultural transmission. As an artist, Brito has performed with local and national companies and has created over 70 original works, varying from 6 minute dance solos, to one-hour plays and 3-hour long movement-theatre works.
The core of Brito’s work is the human body’s potential and activation—the work of clarifying choice-making through the knowledge gained within the direct experience of a moving sensing body. Of particular interest are the themes of relationality with all beings; recognizing how we physically code-switch; the politics of resting and nesting; how to be inclusive of a wide range of cultural bodies; and how to include our whole moving bodies in life, work, and education.
Brito works as a singular director, and often in tandem with collaborators.
2020-2021 work includes:
Co-Directing with Harry Waters, Jr. FUTURE NOW: Imagining Tomorrow’s Today. Sept. 2021
Performer—QUEEN B: A new work of Honeybee Futurism. Aug. 2021 (QUEEN B details)
Educator—Pods, Plants, Seeds: The art and science of plants. (Camp) Aug. 2021
Writer-in-Residence—SRICA Residency, Croatia. June-July 2021. (Working on A Moving Education: The Neuroscience of Learning)
Choreographer/Facilitator—YOU CHANGE ME. June 2021 (Northern Spark YOU CHANGE ME details)
Co-Directing with Harry Waters, Jr.— OFFERINGS: Artists Respond to the Mourning, Grieving and Fires on Lake St. Oct. 2020 (2020 Barebones Details)