About

I’m a ​film and dance artist. In 2008 I moved from California to New York 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 made many films. 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 the band Friend Roulette and the performances continued alongside many music videos. These creative relationships, extending beyond the confines of traditional career-making, brought me a lot of joy and defined my multi-genre practice. Forever, the creative is rooted in friendship.

In my career thus far, here are some highlights. I was a long time performer in the Bessie-award winning production of ​Then She Fell​ by Third Rail Projects where I performed around 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 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 somatic work when I was performing full-time and for her antiestablishment film mentorship.

My own work, mostly on Super 8mm and notably shown at the artist-run gallery Tiger Strikes Asteroid, reflects the curvatures of reality and its intersection with our inner worlds. I recently collaborated with choreographer 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 a double major in Religious Studies from NYU. My ongoing work and life is situated within Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland. I pay respect to all indigenous peoples, land, water, and ancestors past, present, and future, including my own.

Reach out and say hello—
brighid.greene@gmail.com