BRKFST DANCE COMPANY

Collaborative breaking choreographers based in St. Paul, Minnesota and founded in 2014. BRKFST performs regionally, premiering work at Walker Arts Center, The Southern Theater, The Cowles Center and Orchestra Hall with The Minnesota Orchestra. They completed their first international tour in 2022, performing in Dublin, Ireland for Dance2Connect (D2C) Hip Hop Festival. Their film “Dreamers” (2019) was deemed an official selection in 11 international film festivals receiving “Grand Jury Award'' (In/Motion Festival 2021) and “Best Experimental Film” (Tirana International Film Festival 2020). BRKFST has set repertoire and original work on dancers at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Carleton College, D2C Festival (Ireland) and Bates Dance Festival (Maine). BRKFST Dance Company is a 2022 recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) National Dance Project (NDP) Production Grant.


Performers/Choreographers:

Lisa 'MonaLisa' Berman

Lisa 'MonaLisa' Berman

Joseph 'MN Joe' Tran

Joseph 'MN Joe' Tran

Renée Copeland

Renée Copeland

Travis 'Seqal' Johnson

Travis 'Seqal' Johnson

Marie Thayer

Marie Thayer

Danielle Banovetz

Danielle Banovetz

Azaria 'AZ' Evans-Parham

Azaria 'AZ' Evans-Parham

Michael 'Myke the Titan' Romero

Michael 'Myke the Titan' Romero


Dramaturge: Emma Marlar & Gabriel Anderson

Costume Design: Rhiannon Fiskradatz


The creation and premiere of this new work by BRKFST Dance Company set to “Dancers, Dreamers and Presidents” by Daniel Bernard Roumain was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

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