Tiffany Merritt-Brown is a choreographer, performer, scholar, and educator whose creative research activates the body as an archive, memory, and site of transformation. Rooted in Black feminist thought, radical imagination, and cultural tradition, her work explores how identity, history, and memory shape BIPOC communities while imagining new possibilities for the present and future through movement.

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Tiffany is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Hunter College (CUNY) and serves as the Administrative Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s AileyCamp Miami. She is a 2024 Dancing While Black Fellow, an alumna of the Jacob’s Pillow Ann & Weston Hicks Choreographers Fellowship, and co-founder of the Florida Black Dance Artists Organization.

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Her choreographic projects include Communion, a ritual performance exploring spiritual memory and African diasporic traditions; Tender is the Night, an immersive exploration of care, kinship, and Black feminist futurity; Ethereal Bodies: Anointed, Divine, & Black, which investigates water as a spiritual agent of resilience and renewal; and Thérapie au Chocolat, a dance film experienced as meditation or prayer, set by the ocean and centering healing rituals in water. Across these works, Tiffany creates choreographies that function as prayer, testimony, and visionary invitation.

 

She has presented her work nationally and internationally at Jacob’s Pillow, the Linebreaks Festival, Detroit Dance City Festival, American College Dance Association Conferences, Dougherty Arts Center, Miami Dade College, Arts on Site NYC, BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance), the KAYE Playhouse, and CADD (Collegium for African Diaspora Dance), as well as at the WDA-A Conference in Puebla, Mexico, and Tanara Public School in Chepo, Panama. Through her teaching, leadership, and creative practice, Tiffany continues her commitment to cultivating the next generation of dancers, thinkers, and dreamers while offering choreographic works that insist on restoration, reimagination, and collective freedom.