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Brooklyn Draper is a researcher, educator, choreographer, and performer currently residing in Missoula, MT. She received a Post-Graduate degree from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance in London, UK and her MFA from the University of Utah. Brooklyn is also a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA) through the Integrated Movement Studies program under the mentorship of Peggy Hackney and Janice Meaden. 

Brooklyn has had the honor to perform in the U.S., China, and the UK and to work with choreographers including Hagit Yakira, Gary Lambert, Eric Handman, Pamela Geber Handman, and Anouk van Dijk.

Brooklyn’s creative scholarship has been shown nationally and internationally through Mudson (UT), WCDC (UT), Artist Interrupted (UT), Beijing Dance Academy (China), Bonnie Bird Theater (U.K.), Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (UT), Flatlands Dance Theater (TX), Utah Metropolitan Ballet, Utah Valley University (UT), Kinetic Convergence Dance Collective (MT), and the University of Montana (MT). In 2021, her creative screendance, “Dreamdays,” was selected for the American College Dance Association National Screendance Gala Performance. Her most recent work, "Pending," will be presented at the 2026 Spring to Dance Festival in St. Louis, MO.

Brooklyn’s current research, alongside Tara McFarland, is an IRB approved study, “Creating Performance Enhancement Curriculum via Dance Screening Data for Pre-Professional Dancers,” investigates how a research-based dance conditioning course impacts results of dance screenings in University of Montana Dance Majors. Findings from this research were presented at the 2024 International Association of Dance Medicine and Science conference in Rimini, Italy.

Education

MFA University of Utah

Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA)

Graduate Diploma from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance