Singer and tap dancer Brinae Ali
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I was privileged to attend a joyous performance by Brinae Ali and her Brinae Ali Quintet at Millersville University's Ware Center Saturday night. The show was a blend of storytelling and the sounds of jazz, tap, hip-hop, funk and rock 'n' roll. The quintet included Hannah Mayer on piano; Blake Meister, bass; Wendel Patrick, turntables-beatbox/effects; and Jevon Rushton, drums
Brinae Ali and drummer Jevon Rushton during Saturday's performance
Brinae Ali's bio from Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute:
As an educator she has collaborated with After School Activities Partnership, East Park Revitalization Alliance, Philadelphia Clef Club of Performing Arts, Raise It Up! Youth Arts and Awareness, Flint Youth Theatre, Mural Arts of Philadelphia, Young Audiences of New Jersey, Queens College, Long Island University, Ping Chong and Company, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and was an artist in residence at the Carol Morgan School in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Apollo Theater Education with Wadleigh High School in Harlem NYC. She has also served as an adjunct professor at Queens College and Long Island University.
Internationally Bradley has traveled and performed around the world in countries such as, France, Germany, China, and Brazil. She also travelled with a team of tap dancers to Russia for a tour in 5 cities working with the U.S. Embassy for its cultural exchange program celebrating National Tap Dance Day. Her broadway and off-broadway experience has gained her positions as assistant dance captain for “Shuffle Along: the 1921 Sensation And All That Followed” choreographed by Savion Glover and directed by George C.Wolfe, company member of NY and Touring cast of STOMP, special feature in the “Cotton Club Parade” which later became “After Midnight” under the musical direction of Wynton Marsalis, New York City Center Off -Center production of “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” directed and choreographed by Savion Glover and was a part of a two week tour in Italy celebrating Ella Fitzergerald’s centennial.
As a playwright and songwriter she has also created award winning works such as Best Short Play at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival for her one woman show “Steps” and the Vox Populi Independence Music Award for “Destination Forever: Vol.1 EP.” Currently she is developing a work in progress with trumpeter Sean Jones called “Dizzy Spellz” fusing tap, Bebop, Hip Hop, and Afro Cuban music to articulate the African American experience through the music of Dizzy Gillespie from a afrofuturistic lense.
Taken with my iPhone 6s
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Thank you for bringing Brinae Ali to our attention!
She has obviously got a lot of talent covering many important and fun fields! She's helping the young people of Flint in ways that might not have occurred to anyone else.
Her list of accomplishments just boggles my mind. Long may she live and thrive, and long may her work inspire everyone who is lucky enough to see/hear her.
Great photo!
Thanks for posting these! 
