About Brenton

Body

Brenton is a teacher, director, and performer of improvised and choreographed work, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to directing his own work, he has performed with internationally-acclaimed Contraband, Zaccho Dance Theater, Angus Balbernie, Kim Epifano, Jo Kreiter & Flyaway Productions, Megan Lowe Dances, and many others, at such places as Jacob's Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, and the Festival d'Avignon, France.

He teaches Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies, contact improvisation, and somatically-based performance skills to professional and non-professional movers in classes and workshops around the world. As a teacher, he empowers students to become sophisticated movers through a cultivation of somatic and poetic awarenesses, and an engaged relationship to the unknown. He is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst and Registered Somatic Movement Educator, and is on the faculty at University of San Francisco and the Integrated Movement Studies Laban/Bartenieff certification program. He was both faculty and student at Moving on Center in Oakland, California.

Technology

Brenton works at the Internet Archive, a non-profit based in San Francisco, helping to provide universal access to all knowledge for all people forever.