About

I’m a ​film, dance, and theater artist. In 2008 I moved to New York from Carmel, California to study dance at NYU Tisch. My mom’s from New York, her grandparents and great-grandparents immigrated from Ireland to Queens, and much of her family is still here. In a way, I returned to a place of home. My best friend from California was also at NYU and she introduced me to many of her filmmaker friends. Together we would make films and I would choreograph and dance for them. My true first film experiments however were in middle school and high school— a documentary for my friend’s 18th birthday, a documentary about my high school’s dance and a capella groups, and a short narrative in which I died from hemlock poisoning on the Oregon Trail. The memories of making these standout. At NYU, I also got to know the musicians accompanying our classes and started dancing with their band Bad Nancy. We would perform in backyards and basements and many of the venues of the 2010s. Bad Nancy eventually morphed into Friend Roulette. These creative relationships and friendships, extending beyond the confines of traditional career-making, brought me a lot of joy and defined my multi-genre practice. Forever, my friendships are rooted in the creative.

In my career thus far, here are some highlights. I was a long time performer in the Bessie-award winning production of ​Then She Fellby Third Rail Projects where I performed about 800 shows. As a film producer I’ve worked on Yara Travieso’s ​La Medea, an immersive musical and feature film that re-imagines Euripides’ myth into a Latin-disco-pop-Womanist variety show; and Sarah Friedland’s CROWDS, a 3-channel video installation of a durational dance that investigates the choreography of crowd typologies and the slippages between them. I am currently producing Tatyana Tenenbaum’s debut feature documentary, Everything You Have Is Yours, that follows choreographer Hadar Ahuvia and is set to premiere in 2024.

I have worked for festivals, including Tribeca, Cucalorus, and Dance on Camera at Film at Lincoln Center, was Programs Director at Dance Films Association, and teach Super 8mm classes at Mono No Aware. I have a longstanding relationship with dancer/filmmaker Lily Baldwin, notably contributing grant writing for her upcoming experimental documentary feature Chronicle of Hip which was a recent grantee of Sundance’s Interdisciplinary Program and on the Creative Capital shortlist.

I’ve choreographed for Josephine Decker's ​Madeline's Madeline​ (Sundance) and performed with ANIMALS Performance Group, Katie Rose McLaughlin, Katherine Brook, and Liz Glynn. Two mentor-like figures are Vanessa Walters, the choreographer and filmmaker who showed me how music and dance and film can live together, and Cori Olinghouse, who I am very grateful to for her somatic work when I was performing full-time and for her antiestablishment film mentorship.

My own work, notably shown at artist-run gallery Tiger Strikes Asteroid, reflects the curvatures of reality and its intersection with our inner worlds. I have also recently collaborated with Tyler Rai to make a Super 8mm film commissioned by the science inspired arts organization Works on Water for their triennial.

I graduated with a BFA in dance and also a double majored in Religious Studies from NYU. My ongoing work and life is situated within Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland. I pay respect to Lenape people, land, water, and ancestors past, present, and future.

Please reach out and say hello—
brighid.greene@gmail.com

 

self portrait at Cucalorus in North Carolina, 35mm film hand processed at Mono No Aware

photo by Conrad Ziółkowski