Welcome, 

Brianna Rhodes was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. Dayton was a small city but it thrived on artistic expression. Brianna was quickly catapulted into the world of art when she started dance at just the age of 3.

Background

Brianna started dancing at the age of three where she took her first ballet class at Dayton Ballet. As she continued on with her classes, she started to like the art form and wanted to see what else it had to offer, so she went down a different path and started taking gymnastics until she was seven years old. She wanted to continue her dance training by participating in competition dance classes, where she took ballet, jazz, hip-hop, tap, and acrobatics at Roberta Lynn’s School of Dance in Trotwood and New Lebanon, Ohio. She was then asked to join the competitive dance team where they traveled to numerous cities for competitions. As she got older, she set her sights on continuing her dance training.

In sixth grade, Brianna auditioned for the local performing arts high school, Stivers School for the Arts. It was the best decision she had ever made. Her training doubled, and she found out that she could go very far if she maintained her hard work and determination. For six years, she grew at Stivers and in the end, she graduated in 2015 with exceptional awards in choreography and received an award for all-around dancer. While at Stivers, she had the opportunity to dance at TEDx Dayton, perform with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC), and perform at the International Association of Blacks and Dance (IABD) in Cleveland, Ohio.

After high school, Brianna made the choice to attend The Ohio State University. She obviously majored in dance but also focused in African American and African Studies. Keeping that in her front pocket, Brianna had multiple opportunities to spread her wings at OSU such as continuing to take classes and perform at IABD, performing at the American College Dance Conference (ACDC), and travel to Brazil as apart of a dance tour group for two weeks. She has also been a part of the Denman Undergraduate Research forum, performed for TEDx The Ohio State University, Tedx King Lincoln Bronzville, and danced at the Hubbard Street Summer Dance Intensive in Chicago. There, she received extensive pre-professional dance training. In the spring of 2019, Brianna finished her BFA in Dance with Distinction from The Ohio State University. Immediately following graduation, Brianna was offered and accepted a position as a Jerylden Blunden fellow with the world renown Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.

Today

Currently, she is a freelance artist partaking on many independent projects. She teachers at two dance studios throughout Columbus and serves as a lead dance facilitator for the Lincoln Theatre PATTERNZ Summer Camp. Brianna teaches many classes online throughout the United States and performs for many festivals and conferences.  Brianna is available to teach, choreograph, and perform. To know more information please contact her via the contact page and follow her on social media to keep up on new projects.

Performing & Teaching

Over the years, Brianna has acquired a large pallet of dance styles such as modern, contemporary, classical ballet, hip-hop, and jazz. Additionally, she has taken on other dance styles like dancehall, and afrobeats. With all of these forms of dancing, she has crafted her own sense of dance while staying true to her love of improvisation. Everything Brianna does comes with the focus of purpose and passion. She has a goal to make herself marketable in many forms of dance so she can fully educate others on the history of african american life through dance.