Moving Art Making
Brandon believes dance is a universal language that can inspire lives and promote change. His choreography aims to tell stories, both traditional and abstract, that will stimulate, encourage, and transport the audience.
See excerpts and examples below, and visit Brandon’s YouTube or Vimeo.
Barrier (Excerpt)
Silent Conversations
On Edge (Excerpt)
Force Flux (Excerpt)
I AM (Excerpt)
Cinderella's Ball
Commission Brandon's Work
If you are interested in commissioning Brandon’s choreographic work for your company, school, program, or festival, CONTACT HIM.
Review
From "Up Close and Personal: Louisville Ballet’s Choreographers' Showcase Packs the House"
The evening’s highlight for me was Brandon Ragland’s Rumination to Zoe Keating’s Exurgency. The
compelling thrust of the music was beautifully complemented by Mr. Ragland’s multi-layered sequences
for pairs of dancers (Albrechta, Corbitt Miller, Reinking O’Dell, Sellers, Forehand, Ichihashi, Krieger and
Stokes) with intricate partnering and figures that tested the tension between forward energy and stasis.
The deep red and black costuming contributed to the visual strength of this piece. Thursday night’s
audience responded with a collective exhale as the ballet came to an end, attesting to the power of this
eight-minute collaboration between choreographer and composer. Mr. Ragland also contributed
Shostakovich to the evening with music, not surprisingly, by Dmitri Shostakovich. Working with a larger
ensemble, Ragland’s choreography enters a more neoclassic style, demonstrating fluid transitions
between the two principal pairs (Natalia Ashikhmina and Evgeni Dokoukine and Erica De La O and
Kristopher Wojtera) and various combinations of the larger ensemble.
Kathi E. B. Ellis
Critic, ArtsLouisville.com