Brendan Drake

Brendan Drake is gender-queer interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Brooklyn/ Lenapehoking. Their work uses disparate movement forms, erotic imagery, text, and sound manipulation to interrogate issues surrounding gender, vanity, and queer power dynamics. Brendan was a 2017-2018 Fresh Tracks Artist at New York Live Arts and has been awarded grants and residencies through the Brooklyn Arts Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, CUNY Dance Initiative, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, The Tank, and Chez Bushwick. Their recent work has been presented at Danspace Project (Draftwork), The Brick, La MaMa, PAGEANT, Joes Pub, JrHigh (Los Angeles, CA), and The Dance Complex (Boston, MA). From 2022-2023, they were the director of UCLA’s “Sex Squad,” working collaboratively with undergraduates and LA County High School students to devise performances centering on issues of sexual health, consent, identity, and pleasure  They have also enjoyed guest teaching at Columbia University, University of Massachusetts, Muhlenberg College, and New York Film Academy. Brendan holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MFA in Choreographic Inquiry from UCLA.

 

  • Fall 2023 MR@Judson Artist
Image of a performer with brown shoulder-length curly hair and a short beard. They are cropped from the hips up and wearing a black tank top. Their upper body is pivoting front and their eyes are looking quizzically to the upper right diagonal with their right hand pointing to their chest. Photo by Whitney Browne.
ID: Image of a performer with brown shoulder-length curly hair and a short beard. They are cropped from the hips up and wearing a black tank top. Their upper body is pivoting front and their eyes are looking quizzically to the upper right diagonal with their right hand pointing to their chest. Photo by Whitney Browne.