James Brasic

User Bio

James Robert Brašić received a Master of Arts in music composition from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, where he studied music composition with John MacIvor Perkins. His music has been choreographed by Frank C. Martin, II, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, and Belinda James of New York.

James became a filmmaker when he created Dream during Dance for the Camera 2008 at MediaNet, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The film may be viewed through the Hampshire Film Festival (festival.hampshire.tk/)

From 2006 to 2009, James performed jazz dance choreography by Douglas Yeuell and Tommy Parlon and improvisation facilitated by Michelle Ava at the Jack Guidone Theater of the Joy of Motion Dance Center (JOMDC) in Washington, DC.

James has performed modern dance choreography with the Collective at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, with choreography by Jennifer Ousse-Seye (2007), Sonia Synkowski (2008), and Jessica Fultz (2009). James has performed in the Advanced Adult Summer Intensives of Maryland Youth Ballet, Silver Spring, Maryland, in 2007 and 2009. James performed Duet choreographed by Cindi L’Abbe at the Choreographers' Workshop on February 16, 2008, and at the First Annual Choreographers' Showcase on March 7, 2008, at Mattin Cultural Arts Center of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2009, James performed a classical ballet (La Paquita choreographed by Marius Petipa and staged by Miya Hisaka Silva) and improvisation facilitated by Michelle Ava at the Jack Guidone Theater of the Joy of Motion Dance Center (JOMDC) in Washington, DC. James also performed improvisation with Avadance facilitated by Michelle Ava and jazz dance choreographed by Douglas Yeuell on October 17, 2009, at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, DC. James also performed improvisation with Avadance facilitated by Michelle Ava at VisArts in Rockville, Maryland, on November 6, 2009, and at Sunrise on Connecticut Avenue, Washington, DC, on December 11, 2009.

Sabrina Hurley kindly placed the video her husband took of our performance of La Paquita choreographed by Marius Petipa (1898) staged and directed by Miya Hisaka Silva at the Jack Guidone Theater of the Joy of Motion Dance Center in Washington, DC, on July 19, 2009, on YouTube. I wear a red leotard. I am upstage left. I appear on the right of the images. The opening is as follows: youtubecom/watch?v=3Dtz3AEKOhoGA

For the prefinale Sabrina is my partner. The prefinale is as follows:
youtube.com/watch?v=3DgLyUIqOjdlg

James studies ballet, jazz dance, and modern dance at the Collective, Expressions in Motion, and the Johns Hopkins University Modern Dance Company, Baltimore, Maryland; the Joy of Motion Dance Center, Washington, District of Columbia; and Maryland Youth Ballet, Silver Spring, Maryland. James is a member of (1) the Classical Dance Repertory Theatre of the Joy of Motion Dance Center and (2) Improvolutions Avadance in Washington, DC.

James is currently creating experimental ballets utilizing his own music as well as the works of others.

For further information please refer to James’s entry in Who’sWho in America®, 2010, 64th Edition. Marquis Who'sWho, New Providence, New Jersey, marquiswhoswho.com

Choreography

The journey and Rose is a rose is a ? performed by James Robert Brašić at the Jack Guidone Theatre of the Joy of Motion Dance Center in Washington, DC, on June 10, 2006, and at the Red Maple, Baltimore, Maryland, on September 14, 2006.

Flowers of hatred including a revision of The journey performed by James Robert Brašić at the Jack Guidone Theatre of the Joy of Motion Dance Center in Washington, DC, on December 16 and 17, 2006, at the Open Marley Night hosted by the Collective at Experimental Movement Concepts in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 12, 2007, and May 17, 2008, at the Choreographers' Workshop on February 16, 2008, at Mattin Cultural Arts Center of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and at the First Annual Choreographers' Showcase on March 7, 2008, at Mattin Cultural Arts Center of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

"I never promised you a rose garden," a revision of Rose is a rose is a ? performed by James Robert Brašić at the Choreographers' Workshop on February 16, 2008, at Mattin Cultural Arts Center of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, at the First Annual Choreographers' Showcase on March 7, 2008, at Mattin Cultural Arts Center of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Open Marley Night hosted by the Collective at Experimental Movement Concepts in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 17, 2008.

Spoken word

Les fleurs du mal [Flowers of evil] (2008) is an audio recording of the sound track of the French version of the ballet Flowers of hatred utilizing segments of the 1861 edition of the book of poetry published by Charles Baudelaire in Paris, France. UPC barcode 634479802959. Available online through CDBaby (cdbaby.com)