Transforming the conditions of the human spirit: With Brinae Ali

Alexandria “Brinae Ali” Bradley was born and raised in Flint, Michigan and is an interdisciplinary artist who believes in using the power of the arts to transform the conditions of the human spirit. 

Brinae has served as the artistic director of Tapology, Inc. in Flint, MI, Fourth Wall Arts Salon, and Sound and Movement, LLC in Philadelphia. She has also partnered and served as a teaching artist with organizations such as Ping Chong and Company, NJPAC, Moving History, and the Apollo Theater Education Department. She has also received awards for 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.”  Her Broadway and Off-Broadway experiences include Shuffle Along and STOMP. She was also a feature dancer in  the TV/Film drama miniseries Lady In The Lake.

Currently, Brinae is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory, co-creator of a work with trumpeter Sean Jones called “Dizzy Spellz,” a member of the Baltimore Jazz Collective, and cultural ambassador for diplomacy through the lens of Hip Hop culture as an artist in residence with Next Level-USA  in partnership with the U.S. Department of State Education and Cultural Affairs, the University of North Carolina, and the Meridian International Center. Brinae is also a National Dance Projects Grant, Chamber Music of America New Jazz Works, Ruby Artist Award recipient and Community Arts Fellow through Johns Hopkins University’s Inheritance Baltimore/Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts for an archival performative process called the “Baby Laurence Legacy Project: Tracing Steps.”