Russell Patrick Brown

Russell Patrick Brown Bashaldo Gypsy dancer, harper and fortune teller. PhD in Impact-Driven Dance. Developing the micro-dance method as a tool for seated resistance.

Colonizers didn’t just take the historic map from my wall while I was fighting corruption and eviction at Gay and Christ...
07/07/2026

Colonizers didn’t just take the historic map from my wall while I was fighting corruption and eviction at Gay and Christopher Streets, where I fought to preserve the area’s block’s Romani and African-American history. They took the entire color palette and aesthetic of my life, right down to the tones of my hair and my skin.

I’ve put myself in increased danger by sharing this story, but I feel I must expose not only how modern colonization is working in New York City, but how elite university presses commodify Gypsy lore while displacing living Roma scholars.

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01/07/2026

Sometimes there just aren’t any words. In the Irish harping tradition however, there are laments. They have so often been written for the innocent and brave people we have lost in the long fight against colonialism, racism, slavery and other forms of tyranny. I dedicate this lament to the young mother shot today by ICE, the university students shot yesterday in the genocide in Palestine, the ongoing genocide of indigenous Americans, the victims of genocide in Sudan and Congo, my Roma and Sinti brothers and sisters lost in unrecognized, ongoing genocides and so many more good people who did not deserve what they are facing and standing up to. This is a space for grief.

Until my landlord at 18 Gay Street (Greenwich Village NYC) died, she gave us gift bags every year for the holidays with ...
12/23/2025

Until my landlord at 18 Gay Street (Greenwich Village NYC) died, she gave us gift bags every year for the holidays with Johnny Walker, V***e Clicquot and luxury candy. She wasn’t a saint, but she did say I love you every time saw her. I miss her dearly. She was proof that you don’t have to be evil to give people a place to stay as a tenant.

It took me 13 years to be able to write this. Dance history has a secret, and we’ve all been moving inside its shadow. I...
12/11/2025

It took me 13 years to be able to write this. Dance history has a secret, and we’ve all been moving inside its shadow. I’m done pretending it’s not there. I’m done pretending it’s more interesting or legitimate in any way.

So many people helped me see what I couldn’t see alone. I offer this piece in return as a gesture of solidarity, and as evidence of some surprising ways whiteness was built and is maintained through choreography, archive and power.

Part II is out now. https://open.substack.com/pub/timedancers/p/the-big-lie-in-dance-history?r=6fonbr&utm_medium=ios

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