Please note that Bradford Chin is now affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and can be reached at Bradford.Chin@wisc.edu or BradfordChin.com.
San Francisco native Bradford Chin (he/they) is a dance artist & methodologist, DEIJ & accessibility consultant, and audio describer for dance. Based in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, he was a 2021 fellow with the Dance/USA Institute for Leadership Training and a recipient of the 2021-2022 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. His works have been described by LA Dance Chronicle as “conceptually fun” and presented at festivals, museums, and schools. Formerly a company member with AXIS Dance Company, for which he helped procure outreach engagements with the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of California, Irvine, he has performed works by choreographers including Arthur Pita, Jennifer Archibald, and Robin Dekkers, and has danced with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Contempo Ballet, and Laurel Jenkins among others.
Specializing in dance & disability and critically inclusive dance pedagogy, Bradford has taught contemporary modern, ballet, and improvisation and/as composition techniques across the United States and internationally as both an independent artist and for schools and organizations such as The Wooden Floor and Young Choreographers Project LA. For two years, he co-directed stART in partnership with ARTX (now Long Beach Museum of Art) and with funding by Arts Council for Long Beach. Formerly a research consultant for Dance Data Project, his creative and scholarly research interests include disability in dance, critically inclusive dance pedagogy, improvisation and/as composition, and creative process/aesthetics in Western concert dance culture.
Bradford earned a BFA in Dance from California State University, Long Beach, where he is the inaugural Concert Accessibility Coordinator; a Certificate in Social Justice & Diversity from City College of San Francisco; and an MFA in Dance from the University of California, Irvine. At UCI, he served as the Campus Climate Director for the Associated Graduate Students and was instrumental in advancing LGBTQIA+ and disability inclusion on campus through inter-departmental campus partnerships. He is the founding coordinator of the annual access-centered AGS Inclusive Drag Night, which began in 2022 with a $20,000 grant from the University of California Office of the President. His work has been recognized and funded with over $35,000 of support by entities including the California Arts Council, The Actors Fund, Arts Council for Long Beach, the UCI Division for Teaching Excellence and Innovation, the UCI Center for Medical Humanities, and the UCI Institute for 21st Century Creativity, among others. He currently serves on the Advisory Council for the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO).
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT(Chicago)
Preamble
The role of the arts is to make visible the invisible. It is not the responsibility of those who have been invisibilized to remind us that they are still here. (Keshet Dance & Center for the Arts, Albuquerque, NM)
Land Acknowledgement
Chicago is part of the traditional homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: The Odawa, Ojibwe and Potawatomi Nations. Many other Tribes like the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac and Fox also called this area home. Located at the intersection of several great waterways, the land naturally became a site of travel and healing for many Tribes. American Indians continue to call this area home and now Chicago is home to the third largest Urban American Indian community that still practices their heritage, traditions and care for the land and waterways. Today, Chicago continues to be a place that calls many people from diverse backgrounds to live and gather here. Despite the many changes the city has experienced, the American Indian community sees the importance of the land and this place that has always been a city home to many diverse backgrounds and perspectives. (adapted from the American Indian Center of Chicago)
