Brown Rice Productions facilitates the creation and presentation of new dance theatre performance work by Graham Brown, Lehua Estrada, and creative partners.
Their current project You by Graham Brown is an immersive dance party theatre experience that will open spring 2017. You is a new devised work that follows the nightlife and private lives of four friends as they navigate love, friendship, and loneliness amid the crowd.
Graham Brown (BFA: U of UT; MFA: U of MD) is invested in creating performance work that engages various theatrical modalities to convey personal narratives within a highly athletic and rhythmically infectious physicality. In preparation for the premier of You, Graham performed a short solo excerpt at the Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the NextNOW Festival in College Park, MD. His work has also been presented by Queen’s College (NY), The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (MD), The Roundhouse Theatre (DC), and The Sugar Space (SLC). In 2004 Graham founded the SLC based improv company Movement Forum, and co-directed it until 2010. He has free-lanced with many choreographers and currently tours with PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER (NYC/DC). Graham is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Brigham Young University.
Lehua Estrada, originally from Kaua’i, toured nationally and internationally with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company from 2006-2010. With the company she performed the works of then Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen, and Founding Directors Joan Woodbury and Shirley Ririe, the historical works of Alwin Nikolais, as well as guest artists Carolyn Carlson, Doug Varone, Alicia Sanchez, John Jasperse, Susan Marshall, and many more. Lehua lived in the Washington D.C. area where she guest taught at The Maryland Youth Ballet, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and University of Maryland, College Park, and freelanced with Cie. Willi Dorner, Nicholas Leichter Dance, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATRE, Stephanie Miracle, and Tzveta Kassabova. Since returning to Utah, Lehua has worked with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Stephen Koester through akaMOFO, Ashley Anderson, Natosha Washington, and Daniel Charon through the Utah Opera. Her choreography has been presented in Utah by Dance Theater Coalition, the ON-SITE Mobile Dance Series, RWDC’s alumni production, Momentum, and Valley Dance Ensemble.
Lehua Estrada, originally from Kaua’i, toured nationally and internationally with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company from 2006-2010. With the company she performed the works of then Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen, and Founding Directors Joan Woodbury and Shirley Ririe, the historical works of Alwin Nikolais, as well as guest artists Carolyn Carlson, Doug Varone, Alicia Sanchez, John Jasperse, Susan Marshall, and many more. Lehua lived in the Washington D.C. area where she guest taught at The Maryland Youth Ballet, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and University of Maryland, College Park, and freelanced with Cie. Willi Dorner, Nicholas Leichter Dance, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATRE, Stephanie Miracle, and Tzveta Kassabova. Since returning to Utah, Lehua has worked with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Stephen Koester through akaMOFO, Ashley Anderson, Natosha Washington, and Daniel Charon through the Utah Opera. Her choreography has been presented in Utah by Dance Theater Coalition, the ON-SITE Mobile Dance Series, RWDC’s alumni production, Momentum, and Valley Dance Ensemble.