International Performing Artist, Choreographer, & Dance Entrepreneur.
Originally from Detroit, Michigan, I am a thriving artist currently based in Brussels, Belgium.
I have a passion for inspiring and empowering other passionate artists, audiences and dance students to maximize their creative dreams and potential. Through performances, workshops and other projects, I generously share my wisdom and expertise, strengthening the community aspect of dance and the arts.
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I’ve been blessed to perform, teach, and choreograph internationally with a number of collaborators and partners including but not limited to:
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« Get Down - Dancers Management collabore avec Briana depuis 2021 en management et diffusion. Notre collaboration est toujours un réel plaisir, un travail d’équipe créatif et professionnel, dans l’échange et la bienveillance. Je me réjouis de partager et de continuer à accompagner cette artiste authentique, professionnelle et ambitieuse dans son parcours artistique. » Camille Philippot -
Camille Philippot
Fondatrice et CEO de Get Down - Dancers Management
Briana’s Embodied Rhythm Coaching brought a new layer, lightness and joy into our creative process. Having an intuitional approach to rhythm, voice and words, I was having difficulty to introduce it to our rehearsals with my collaborators. Briana’s uplifting, rich and perfectly organised sessions gave us an opportunity to meet on a common ground and safe space in the midst of the waves of the creation. It offered us a gate through which we could vocalise the key words related to our subject matter (height) and physically reach the audience with our sound waves from the inner caves of our physical boundaries.
Bahar Temiz
Multidisciplinary Dancer & Choreographer
Briana’s Embodied Rhythm Coaching brought a new layer, lightness and joy into our creative process. Having an intuitional approach to rhythm, voice and words, I was having difficulty to introduce it to our rehearsals with my collaborators. Briana’s uplifting, rich and perfectly organised sessions gave us an opportunity to meet on a common ground and safe space in the midst of the waves of the creation. It offered us a gate through which we could vocalise the key words related to our subject matter (height) and physically reach the audience with our sound waves from the inner caves of our physical boundaries.
Bahar Temiz
Multidisciplinary Dancer & Choreographer
“Briana was first introduced to me by Jessica Fogel, chair of the University of Michigan’s Department of Dance, as a performer who would be the perfect addition to a very special event being planned. In my role as Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, I was in charge of organizing the U-M Bicentennial Colloquia: Social Justice and the Performing Arts, featuring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Briana’s performance was the perfect complement to an evening of extraordinary talent depicting the power of hope, courage, and love. In particular, Briana’s energy and way of engaging the audience was a refreshing moment amongst the collection of performances. Personally, my daughters were enthralled by her movements and the joy she radiated. Her presence left a mark on their memory that surpassed all else that evening for them. It was truly a pleasure to have experienced her talents!”
Freyja Harris
Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Among the collection of virtuosic solos highlighted in the piece, the one that stood out most was Briana Ashley Stuart’s emotionally isolating section, which used a follow-spot type trick with the top lights. Stuart maintained such composure that it felt that she was hopeful and alone in a struggle against something greater than what an individual can endure, or perhaps understand.
Taryn Packheiser Brown
DC Dance Journalism Project Review of “Analog” by S. J. Ewing & Dancers
“Briana Stuart est une artiste complète qui mérite d’être rencontrée. Son aura solaire et positive va vous embarquer dans son univers en un rien de temps ! Optimisme, talent, générosité, énergie, passion… Elle possède toutes les atouts qui font d’une professeure et danseuse un mentor qualifié pour vous faire évoluer vite et bien. Pour avoir suivi des stages avec elle, je peux vous assurer qu’elle va vous pousser dans la bonne direction, à savoir vers le haut et vers l’avant ! Affaire à suivre, ne manquez surtout pas la chance d’apprendre avec cet instructeur de qualité made in USA !
Lou Pradas
Belgian Artist/Performer/Teacher
“Briana was first introduced to me by Jessica Fogel, chair of the University of Michigan’s Department of Dance, as a performer who would be the perfect addition to a very special event being planned. In my role as Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, I was in charge of organizing the U-M Bicentennial Colloquia: Social Justice and the Performing Arts, featuring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Briana’s performance was the perfect complement to an evening of extraordinary talent depicting the power of hope, courage, and love. In particular, Briana’s energy and way of engaging the audience was a refreshing moment amongst the collection of performances. Personally, my daughters were enthralled by her movements and the joy she radiated. Her presence left a mark on their memory that surpassed all else that evening for them. It was truly a pleasure to have experienced her talents!”
Freyja Harris
Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Among the collection of virtuosic solos highlighted in the piece, the one that stood out most was Briana Ashley Stuart’s emotionally isolating section, which used a follow-spot type trick with the top lights. Stuart maintained such composure that it felt that she was hopeful and alone in a struggle against something greater than what an individual can endure, or perhaps understand.
Taryn Packheiser Brown
DC Dance Journalism Project Review of “Analog” by S. J. Ewing & Dancers
“Briana Stuart est une artiste complète qui mérite d’être rencontrée. Son aura solaire et positive va vous embarquer dans son univers en un rien de temps ! Optimisme, talent, générosité, énergie, passion… Elle possède toutes les atouts qui font d’une professeure et danseuse un mentor qualifié pour vous faire évoluer vite et bien. Pour avoir suivi des stages avec elle, je peux vous assurer qu’elle va vous pousser dans la bonne direction, à savoir vers le haut et vers l’avant ! Affaire à suivre, ne manquez surtout pas la chance d’apprendre avec cet instructeur de qualité made in USA !
Lou Pradas
Belgian Artist/Performer/Teacher
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